Ella Baker Elementary

Ella Baker Elementary operates as an average-sized elementary campus in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, operated by Minneapolis Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 512 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 49% bigger than typical.

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

On the student-mix side, Ella Baker Elementary shows that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 34% Black, 10% White, 9% multiracial, 5% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 8% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Ella Baker Elementary qualify 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.

With demographic context factored in, Ella Baker Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.6%, the actual is 11.0%, a residual of -9.7 points.

Around the school, census data for Hennepin County shows median household income runs about $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Ella Baker Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Whittier Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ella Baker Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 25.5%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 517 students in 2018 compared to 512 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 53% to 40% across the same window.

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