LITTLE CANADA ELEMENTARY

As a big elementary school in LITTLE CANADA, Minnesota, LITTLE CANADA ELEMENTARY teaches 632 students from grades K through 6, run under ROSEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so LITTLE CANADA ELEMENTARY sits 84% larger than that benchmark.

Within ROSEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 12 schools and 7,256 students, LITTLE CANADA ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, LITTLE CANADA ELEMENTARY records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 24% White, 14% Asian, 11% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Ramsey County as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 57% of students at LITTLE CANADA ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, LITTLE CANADA ELEMENTARY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.3%; this one comes in at 20.9%, -13.4 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Ramsey County) records that median household earnings sit near $81,568, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Ramsey County runs 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), of which LITTLE CANADA ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: AFSA Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LITTLE CANADA ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, LITTLE CANADA ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 25.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. LITTLE CANADA ELEMENTARY's enrollment has rose 15% since 2018, when it stood at 550 (now 632). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 34% to 45% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.