Bryn Mawr Elementary

Set in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Bryn Mawr Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school, part of Minneapolis Public School District. It instructs 431 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 25% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

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

On the student-mix side, Bryn Mawr Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 15% Hispanic, 12% White, 10% Asian, 10% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Bryn Mawr Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 20.4%; this one delivers 20.4%.

In the surrounding community, Hennepin County reports that median household income runs about $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Bryn Mawr Elementary is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

Nearest neighbor: Anwatin Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bryn Mawr Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 18.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bryn Mawr Elementary has increased 13%, going from 380 students in 2018 to 431 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share shrank from 24% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.