Hall Academy Elementary

Hall Academy Elementary, an intimate primary school in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, overseen by Minneapolis Public School District, enrolls 234 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% smaller than the state mean of about 344.

Minneapolis Public School District comprises 86 schools with combined enrollment of 29,928 students; Hall Academy Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Hall Academy Elementary records that the most-represented group is Black (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 18% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 10% Asian, 4% White. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Hall Academy Elementary reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Hall Academy Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 14.5%, the actual is 13.3%, a residual of -1.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Hall Academy Elementary is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

Nearest neighbor: Franklin Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hall Academy Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hall Academy Elementary at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 20.9%.

Hall Academy Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 229 students in 2018 compared to 234 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 79% to 53%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 today.

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