MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY

MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in NEW HOPE, Minnesota, part of ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 488 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY sits 42% above that benchmark.

Within ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 25 schools and 10,821 students, MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY shows that Black students make up the majority at 55%. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 9% White, 8% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 83% of students at MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 20.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 17.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Hennepin County put 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%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: Prairie Seeds Middle School Academy, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY has fell 22%, going from 623 students in 2018 to 488 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 19% to 9%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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