Las Estrellas Elementary

Las Estrellas Elementary operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, run under Minneapolis Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 401 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Within Minneapolis Public School District, which oversees 86 schools and 29,928 students, Las Estrellas Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Las Estrellas Elementary shows that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 15% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Las Estrellas Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.8%; this one delivers 12.7%.

Around the school, census data for Hennepin County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Las Estrellas Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is New City School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Las Estrellas Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 24.1%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Las Estrellas Elementary has rose 17%, going from 343 students in 2018 to 401 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 26% to 76% across the same window.

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