Cherokee Heights Elementary School

Cherokee Heights Elementary School is a small K-5 school in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, run under Saint Paul Public Schools. The school instructs 228 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 34% below the state mean of about 344.

Saint Paul Public Schools runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 33,152 students. Cherokee Heights Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cherokee Heights Elementary School shows that the most-represented group is Black (29%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 27% Hispanic, 25% White, 14% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 12% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ramsey County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cherokee Heights Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 18.7%.

Zooming out to the county, Ramsey County reports that median household income runs about $81,568, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cherokee Heights Elementary School is one of 302 public schools in Ramsey County (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students).

Open World Learning Secondary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cherokee Heights Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Cherokee Heights Elementary School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 28.2%.

Cherokee Heights Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 223 students in 2018 compared to 228 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 39% to 27% over that span.

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