GATEWOOD ELEMENTARY

Located at 14900 GATEWOOD DR, in MINNETONKA, Minnesota, GATEWOOD ELEMENTARY is a moderately sized K-5 school that teaches 351 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of HOPKINS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.

GATEWOOD ELEMENTARY is one of 14 schools operated by HOPKINS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 7,129 students overall.

On demographics, GATEWOOD ELEMENTARY reports that the most-represented group is Black (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 32% White, 15% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GATEWOOD ELEMENTARY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.4%; this one comes in at 21.6%, -12.9 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, 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), GATEWOOD ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

SCENIC HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GATEWOOD ELEMENTARY ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 63.8%.

GATEWOOD ELEMENTARY operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 16%: 420 students in 2018 compared to 351 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 38% to 32% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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