Frost Lake Elementary School

Frost Lake Elementary School is a K-5 school of expansive scale in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, operated by Saint Paul Public Schools, works with 593 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 72% above the state mean of about 344.

Saint Paul Public Schools runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 33,152 students. Frost Lake Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Frost Lake Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Asian at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 18% Hispanic, 17% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% White. By comparison, Ramsey County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Frost Lake Elementary School shows 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Ramsey County's rate of about 57%.

With demographic context factored in, Frost Lake Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.8%, the actual is 16.2%, a residual of -3.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Ramsey County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,568 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Ramsey County runs 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), of which Frost Lake Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Early Ed Frost Lake, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Frost Lake Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Frost Lake Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 24.8%.

Frost Lake Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Frost Lake Elementary School has stayed largely flat, going from 587 students in 2018 to 593 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 11% to 18%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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