Cityview Elementary

Cityview Elementary is a tight-knit elementary campus in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, one of the schools within Minneapolis Public School District. The school enrolls 239 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 31% leaner than typical.

Across the 86 schools in Minneapolis Public School District (29,928 students total), Cityview Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Cityview Elementary shows that 52% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 23% Hispanic, 11% White, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Cityview Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, Cityview Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.7%; this one delivers 10.3%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate median household income runs about $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Cityview Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cityview Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cityview Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 10.5%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 34%: 361 students in 2018 compared to 239 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 72% to 52%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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