Jenny Lind Elementary

Jenny Lind Elementary is a tight-knit primary school in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, operated by Minneapolis Public School District. The school instructs 236 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Jenny Lind Elementary sits 31% leaner than that benchmark.

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

On demographics, Jenny Lind Elementary records that 49% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 14% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 11% White, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Jenny Lind Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Jenny Lind Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.4%, the actual is 9.3%, a residual of -11.1 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) reports that median household income runs about $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Jenny Lind Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Legacy of Dr Josie R Johnson Montes, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Jenny Lind Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 10.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 41%: 402 students in 2018 compared to 236 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 70% to 49% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 7.6:1 in 2025.

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