Howe Elementary

Howe Elementary is an elementary school of low-enrollment scale in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, one of the schools within Minneapolis Public School District, teacheing 230 students in grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 33% below typical.

Minneapolis Public School District comprises 86 schools with combined enrollment of 29,928 students; Howe Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Howe Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 66%. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Hennepin County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Howe Elementary reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Howe Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 60.9%, a residual of +12.2 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) shows that median household earnings sit near $97,653, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which Howe Elementary is one.

Sanford Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 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), Howe Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 45.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Howe Elementary's enrollment has climbed 6% since 2018, when it stood at 217 (now 230). The White share of enrollment edged up from 60% to 66% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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