Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 6

United South Central Elementary, Wells, MN

United South Central Elementary is a public elementary school in Wells, part of United South Central Schools. It enrolled 420 students in 2024-25, with 12.4 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "UNITED SOUTH CENTRAL ELEMENTARY".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 420
Teachers (FTE): 34.0
Students per teacher: 12.4
Grades: PK to 6

This school's ratio is 0.8 lower than the district figure of 13.2. The Minnesota average across schools is 15.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.4

District13.2

Minnesota15.2

United States15.3

School details

Address: 600 11th St SW, Wells, MN 56097
Phone: (507)553-5810
District: United South Central Schools
County: Faribault County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Remote
NCES school ID: 270000501769

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 154
Reduced-price lunch: 36
Free or reduced-price lunch: 19045.2% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 145Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.