Hazel Park Preparatory Academy

Hazel Park Preparatory Academy, an average-sized elementary-level community in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, part of Saint Paul Public Schools, instructs 489 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 42% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Within Saint Paul Public Schools, which oversees 87 schools and 33,152 students, Hazel Park Preparatory Academy is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Hazel Park Preparatory Academy lists that the most-represented group is Asian (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 32% Black, 12% Hispanic, 8% White, 7% multiracial. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Hazel Park Preparatory Academy has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Ramsey County's rate of about 57%.

With demographic context factored in, Hazel Park Preparatory Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.5%, the actual is 10.9%, a residual of -4.5 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Ramsey County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,568 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Ramsey County's 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), Hazel Park Preparatory Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Academia Cesar Chavez Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hazel Park Preparatory Academy comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Hazel Park Preparatory Academy's enrollment has edged down 22% since 2018, when it stood at 626 (now 489). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 42% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.