Highwood Hills Elementary

Set in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, Highwood Hills Elementary is a tight-knit elementary school, one of the schools within Saint Paul Public Schools. It instructs 292 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within Saint Paul Public Schools, which oversees 87 schools and 33,152 students, Highwood Hills Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Highwood Hills Elementary shows that 40% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 28% Asian, 18% Hispanic, 11% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Highwood Hills Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Ramsey County (around 57%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Highwood Hills Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.6%, the actual is 13.0%, a residual of -3.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Ramsey County) records that median household income runs about $81,568, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Highwood Hills Elementary is one of 302 public schools in Ramsey County (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students).

Nearest neighbor: Battle Creek Elementary School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Highwood Hills Elementary. On composite proficiency, Highwood Hills Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 4%: 281 students in 2018 compared to 292 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 62% to 40%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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