AQUILA ELEMENTARY

AQUILA ELEMENTARY is a primary school of mid-tier scale in SAINT LOUIS PARK, Minnesota, run under ST. LOUIS PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST., instructing 498 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so AQUILA ELEMENTARY sits 45% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 10 schools in ST. LOUIS PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. (4,446 students total), AQUILA ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, AQUILA ELEMENTARY records that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 24% Black, 15% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, AQUILA ELEMENTARY has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AQUILA ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.2%, the actual is 45.0%, a residual of +4.7 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. AQUILA ELEMENTARY is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), AQUILA ELEMENTARY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 47.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 11%: 558 students in 2018 compared to 498 in 2025.

On this page, members of the AQUILA ELEMENTARY community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.