CORNELIA ELEMENTARY

CORNELIA ELEMENTARY is one of the substantial elementary campuss in EDINA, Minnesota, part of EDINA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 617 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 79% bigger than the state mean of about 344.

EDINA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 8,794 students. CORNELIA ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, CORNELIA ELEMENTARY lists that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 18% Asian, 14% Black, 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 27% of students at CORNELIA 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 south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, CORNELIA ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 60.4%, a residual of +9.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which CORNELIA ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: School #532, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CORNELIA ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 47.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 7%: 574 students in 2018 compared to 617 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment contracted from 27% to 18% over that span.

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