HOMECROFT ELEMENTARY

HOMECROFT ELEMENTARY is one of the reasonably sized elementary-level communitys in DULUTH, Minnesota, one of the schools within DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 448 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 30% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

HOMECROFT ELEMENTARY is one of 31 schools operated by DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 8,994 students overall.

On the student-mix side, HOMECROFT ELEMENTARY reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 26% of students at HOMECROFT ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against St. Louis County (around 40%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HOMECROFT ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.9%, the actual is 60.7%, a residual of +9.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for St. Louis County put the typical household earns roughly $70,069 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, St. Louis County runs 100 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,921 students), of which HOMECROFT ELEMENTARY is one.

NORTH STAR ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HOMECROFT ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HOMECROFT ELEMENTARY at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 47.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. HOMECROFT ELEMENTARY's enrollment has increased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 368 (now 448). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.