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Early Childhood Special Education
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Early Childhood Special Education
Located at 3320 ELLIOT AVE S, in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Early Childhood Special Education is a heavily attended elementary-level community that enrolls 573 students (grades pre-K through K), overseen by Minneapolis Public School District. Enrollment runs roughly 67% bigger than the state mean of about 344.
Within Minneapolis Public School District, which oversees 86 schools and 29,928 students, Early Childhood Special Education is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Early Childhood Special Education records that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 24% Hispanic, 20% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.1:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
In the broader community, Hennepin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Early Childhood Special Education is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Early Childhood Assessment/Special, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Early Childhood Special Education.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Early Childhood Special Education's enrollment has decreased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 598 (now 573). Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 24% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.
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