Anishinabe Academy Elementary

Anishinabe Academy Elementary operates as a modestly sized primary school in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, one of the schools within Minneapolis Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 183 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Anishinabe Academy Elementary sits 47% leaner than that benchmark.

Minneapolis Public School District comprises 86 schools with combined enrollment of 29,928 students; Anishinabe Academy Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Anishinabe Academy Elementary records that the largest single group is Native American, at 63% of enrollment; the rest reads as 20% multiracial, 8% Black, 7% Hispanic, 2% White.

On the income-and-resources front, Anishinabe Academy Elementary records 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Anishinabe Academy Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Anishinabe Academy Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.0%; this one delivers 7.6%.

Around the school, Hennepin County reports that median household income runs about $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Anishinabe Academy Elementary is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

Nearest neighbor: Sullivan Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Anishinabe Academy Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 19%: 226 students in 2018 compared to 183 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 13% to 7%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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