Eagle Creek Elementary School, Shakopee MN

Original Research by School Decision on Eagle Creek Elementary School

Eagle Creek Elementary School is a regular public school in Shakopee, a growing suburban city in the southwest corner of the Twin Cities metro area. It serves students from kindergarten through fifth grade. The school is part of the Shakopee Public School District.

Shakopee itself has changed quickly. Once an isolated river town, it became a bedroom suburb after a highway realignment decades ago and has continued to add residents at a rapid clip. The city now has a mix of historic downtown amenities, sprawling subdivisions, and industrial parks anchored by major employers like Amazon and Emerson. A notable share of households in Shakopee have children, and the public school system runs five elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school.

Eagle Creek Elementary is one of those five elementary schools, and its enrollment is moderate for a primary school in a district of this size. The student body is diverse. Half of the students are white, with the remainder a mix of Hispanic, Black, Asian, multiracial, and American Indian or Alaska Native students. A substantial share of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch.

Academically, the school's state test results are a mixed picture. In English language arts, proficiency rates in grades three, four, and five cluster in the mid-fifty-percent range. In math, the results are notably different by grade. Third and fourth graders scored similarly to their ELA peers, with just over half meeting proficiency standards. However, fifth-grade math results show a sharp drop-off, with the proficiency rate landing well below that of the younger grades. Fifth-grade science results are also on the lower end, though this data comes from a different assessment that had changes to both its name and cut scores, so direct comparison to other years or subjects requires caution. When the school is measured against other elementary schools in Scott County across all tested subjects and grades, its overall proficiency index places it above the midpoint among its district peers.

Families considering the school should be aware of some gaps in publicly available data. Information on special education enrollment and English learner enrollment was not available in the set of records we reviewed, so we cannot describe those student populations here. The same is true for chronic absenteeism rates, which are a useful window into student engagement and daily support needs. A parent may want to ask the school directly about the share of students receiving special education or English language services and about how attendance patterns look across the school.

In terms of community context, housing in the area carries a price tag that is above the state median. Rents have been rising. This is a fast-growing suburb, and the district's leadership recently secured a voter-approved levy renewal that funds safety, security, and classroom technology, a sign that the community is investing in school infrastructure. The broader Shakopee area offers a range of civic amenities, including parks, trails, a community center, and regional attractions like Valleyfair and Canterbury Park. The running bus service helps students in Shakopee's spread-out residential neighborhoods reach school.

Eagle Creek Elementary sits in a district that is growing and investing, serving a diverse student body with an academic record that is strongest in literacy and weakest in fifth-grade math and science. The school's proficiency profile relative to other schools in the county is solid, not top-tier. For a family already living in or moving to Shakopee's southern neighborhoods, this is a choice that comes with a reasonably strong early-grades foundation, a clear math challenge at the upper elementary level, and the typical suburban trade-off of a long commute to the core cities for more space and newer development.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 356%

School 56% · District 58% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 456%

School 56% · District 57% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 526%

School 26% · District 37% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 352%

School 52% · District 47% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 457%

School 57% · District 51% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 556%

School 56% · District 59% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Science

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 28% · ▼ 4 pts below district

even with state median · even with county median

This schoolSHAKOPEE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income47%Higher-income59%12 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income41%Higher-income68%26 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income32%Higher-income74%42 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income49%Higher-income63%15 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income41%Higher-income66%24 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income11%Higher-income37%27 pp gap