Hennepin Schools Lower Campus

Hennepin Schools Lower Campus is one of the compact elementary campuss in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, one of the schools within Hennepin Schools, with 240 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. That puts it 30% leaner than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Hennepin Schools runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 447 students. Hennepin Schools Lower Campus is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Hennepin Schools Lower Campus reports that 76% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 7% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the resource side, Hennepin Schools Lower Campus logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Hennepin Schools Lower Campus tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 95% of students at Hennepin Schools Lower Campus qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Hennepin Schools Lower Campus performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 13.8%, the actual is 26.1%, a residual of +12.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) logs that median household earnings sit near $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which Hennepin Schools Lower Campus is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hennepin Schools Upper Campus, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hennepin Schools Lower Campus ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site. Hennepin Schools Lower Campus is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hennepin Schools Lower Campus has declined 39%, going from 396 students in 2018 to 240 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 90% to 76%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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