West Twin Cities

There were 17,608 students enrolled in Carver County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 0.8% less than the previous year, according to reports from the Minnesota Department of Education.

In terms of gender distribution, the student body in Carver County comprised 51.3% boys, with girls representing the remaining 48.7%.

Data also showed that white students made up 79.4% of the student body, the largest percentage in Carver County schools, followed by Hispanic students with 8.2%, 4.3% multiracial students, 3.6% Black students, 3.5% Asian students, 0.9% American Indian students, 0.1% Other Indigenous Peoples students and less than 0.1% Hawaiian Pacific Islander students.

Chaska High School had the highest enrollment among Carver County's 34 schools in the 2023-24 school year, welcoming 1,538 students.

Minnesota's educational system, the 10th largest in the United States, serves over 869,000 students across 2,709 institutions. As of 2024, the student-to-teacher ratio in the state’s public schools is 1:16, slightly worse than the national average of 1:15.

Meanwhile, data from the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reveals that Minnesota fourth and eighth graders performed mostly above the national average in math, their scores suggest a slight decline from previous years, particularly in reading.

School name	Total enrollment in 2022-23	Total enrollment in 2023-24	% change
Chaska High School	1,584	1,538	-2.9%
Chanhassen High School	1,370	1,383	0.9%
Waconia High School	1,351	1,342	-0.7%
Minnetonka West Middle	1,274	1,287	1%
Waconia Middle School	937	953	1.7%
Carver Elementary School	748	753	0.7%
Cologne Academy	658	665	1.1%
Victoria Elementary	652	648	-0.6%
Clover Ridge Elementary	657	631	-4%
Chaska Middle School East	519	589	13.5%
Chaska Middle School West	599	582	-2.8%
Jonathan Elementary	556	544	-2.2%
Southview Elementary	568	538	-5.3%
Bayview Elementary	562	535	-4.8%
Laketown Elementary	530	523	-1.3%
Watertown-Mayer Elementary School	528	513	-2.8%
Watertown Mayer High	488	499	2.3%
Bluff Creek Elementary	507	479	-5.5%
Pioneer Ridge Middle School	496	459	-7.5%
La Academia	449	457	1.8%
Chanhassen Elementary	445	431	-3.1%
Watertown-Mayer Middle	460	425	-7.6%
Central Elementary	382	400	4.7%
112 ALC Middle School	366	390	6.6%
Central Senior High	334	334	0%
Central Middle	203	209	3%
World Learner Charter School	204	203	-0.5%
SWMetro ALC	88	90	2.3%
Integrated Arts Academy	72	63	-12.5%
Kinder Academy	53	43	-18.9%
112 ALC Independent Study	39	34	-12.8%
Waconia Learning Center	31	34	9.7%
Watertown-Mayer Community Learning Center	30	28	-6.7%
SWMetro Independent Study	6	6	0%