HOPE Community Academy Elementary

As a reasonably sized K-5 school in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, HOPE Community Academy Elementary educates 434 students from grades K through 5, run under HOPE COMMUNITY ACADEMY. That puts it 26% larger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

HOPE COMMUNITY ACADEMY runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 799 students. HOPE Community Academy Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HOPE Community Academy Elementary records that 93% of students identify as Asian, making the school strongly Asian-majority. Other groups include 3% Black, 2% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the resource side, HOPE Community Academy Elementary logs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting HOPE Community Academy Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ramsey County (around 57%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, HOPE Community Academy Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 17.1%; this one delivers 15.6%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Ramsey County) reports that median household income runs about $81,568, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. HOPE Community Academy Elementary is one of 302 public schools in Ramsey County (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students).

Nearest neighbor: HOPE Community Academy Middle, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HOPE Community Academy Elementary at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 21.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site. HOPE Community Academy Elementary is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 19%: 536 students in 2018 compared to 434 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 today.

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