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FALCON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Minnesota's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About FALCON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY
Located at 1393 GARDEN AVE W, in FALCON HEIGHTS, Minnesota, FALCON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY is a reasonably sized K-5 school that educates 442 students (grades K through 6), run under ROSEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so FALCON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY sits 28% larger than that benchmark.
FALCON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY is one of 12 schools operated by ROSEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 7,256 students overall.
Looking at the student body, FALCON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY reports that 66% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 11% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 5% Asian.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Ramsey County (around 57%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FALCON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY ranks in the top 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 51.0%; FALCON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY posts 67.1%, +16.1 points above that line.
Around the school, Ramsey County reports that median household income runs about $81,568, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ramsey County runs 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), of which FALCON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY is one.
Nearest neighbor: Chelsea Heights Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FALCON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.3%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Over the past 7-year window. FALCON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY's enrollment has declined 13% since 2018, when it stood at 509 (now 442).
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