HERITAGE E-STEM MAGNET SCHOOL

As a sprawling 6-8 campus in WEST SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, HERITAGE E-STEM MAGNET SCHOOL educates 761 students from grades 5 through 8, part of West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan. Enrollment runs roughly 54% bigger than the state mean of about 495.

HERITAGE E-STEM MAGNET SCHOOL is one of 13 schools operated by West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan, a district that instructs 5,452 students overall.

On the student-mix side, HERITAGE E-STEM MAGNET SCHOOL shows that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 34% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% multiracial, 2% Native American. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting HERITAGE E-STEM MAGNET SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 52% of students at HERITAGE E-STEM MAGNET SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dakota County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HERITAGE E-STEM MAGNET SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.2%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Dakota County) logs that median household earnings sit near $106,318, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HERITAGE E-STEM MAGNET SCHOOL is one of 170 public schools in Dakota County (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students).

MORELAND ART/HEALTH SCIENCE MAGNET is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HERITAGE E-STEM MAGNET SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, HERITAGE E-STEM MAGNET SCHOOL comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 759 students in 2018 compared to 761 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment increased from 8% to 12% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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