Armatage Elementary

Armatage Elementary is an elementary school of moderately sized scale in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, overseen by Minneapolis Public School District, educateing 377 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Minneapolis Public School District, which oversees 86 schools and 29,928 students, Armatage Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Armatage Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 69%. The remainder comes out to 14% multiracial, 7% Black, 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 20% of students at Armatage Elementary qualify 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 below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Armatage Elementary sits in the top 10% of Minnesota schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 54.2%; actual is 71.3%, +17.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which Armatage Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Anthony Middle, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Armatage Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Armatage Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 63.5%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 38%: 610 students in 2018 compared to 377 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 19% to 7% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.