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What's the state of after-school transportation at MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY?
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Enrollment
488
Elementary
DISTRICT 356 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 273178001326
MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY
8525 62ND AVE N, NEW HOPE, MN 55428 · (763) 504-7700 · Hennepin County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL488 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 10% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
404 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 62 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
23.6%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
15.2%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
17.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.6%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY
MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY's state test result (17.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY this school | 488 | 82.8% | 17.8% |
| Bryn Mawr Elementary MINNEAPOLIS | 431 | 83.1% | 20.4% |
| Lucy Laney Elementary MINNEAPOLIS | 386 | 88.1% | 12.8% |
| Maxfield Elementary School SAINT PAUL | 331 | 88.5% | 13.3% |
| TALAHI COMMUNITY ELEMENTARY SAINT CLOUD | 701 | 84.0% | 16.9% |
| LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SAINT CLOUD | 328 | 81.1% | 12.1% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Hennepin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.8% | #775 of 844 | #136 of 169 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.2% | #787 of 844 | #142 of 169 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.6% | #757 of 844 | #129 of 169 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 488 | #318 of 1,130 | #75 of 206 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #308 of 769 | #63 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.3% | #226 of 796 | #78 of 165 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.8% | #86 of 942 | #34 of 183 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.7% | #132 of 499 | #28 of 99 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
488
-14 (-3%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 694
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 16.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 488 | 37.3 | 13.1:1 | 83% (404) |
| 2023-24 | 496 | 41.1 | 12.1:1 | 86% (426) |
| 2022-23 | 513 | 35.2 | 14.6:1 | 87% (445) |
| 2020-21 | 502 | 31 | 16.2:1 | 75% (376) |
| 2017-18 | 623 | 43.7 | 14.3:1 | 75% (468) |
| 2015-16 | 615 | 44 | 14.0:1 | 79% (488) |
| 2010-11 | 649 | 45 | 14.4:1 | 73% (475) |
| 2000-01 | 586 | 39 | 15.0:1 | 53% (311) |
| 1990-91 | 694 | 32 | 21.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (623 to 488); teachers down 15% (43.7 to 37.3).
About MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY
MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY is a medium-sized elementary school in NEW HOPE, Minnesota. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 488 students. For comparison, elementary schools in Minnesota average about 344 students.
ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT operates 25 schools. Combined enrollment is 10,821 students.
At MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY, Black students make up 55% of the student body. The school is also 16% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 9% White, and 8% Asian. That is higher than the 13% Black share among all Hennepin County residents. The school's diversity index is 64%, meaning two students picked at random have a 64% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
With 37.3 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY was 13.1:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Minnesota average 13.7:1. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 83%. The average for public schools in Hennepin County is 43%.
allk12 grades MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY a D. The grade compares the school only with Minnesota public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
After adjusting for student poverty, MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY lands between the top and bottom 10% of Minnesota schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 17.8%; the prediction is 20.6%.
In the county around the school, Hennepin County, the median household income is $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 496 public schools in Hennepin County, enrolling about 177,509 students in all.
The closest other public school is Prairie Seeds Middle School Academy, about 0.7 miles away. MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY's average proficiency of 17.8% compares with 23.6% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Federal data place MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY's enrollment dropped 3%, to 488. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 16.2:1 to 13.1:1.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Hennepin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,269,496
Census ACS
Median income
$97,653
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
496
177,509 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ROBBINSDALE ARMSTRONG SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,840 students
- ROBBINSDALE COOPER SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,396 students
- PLYMOUTH MIDDLEMiddle · 749 students
- Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion El.Elementary · 733 students
- ROBBINSDALE MIDDLEMiddle · 567 students
- NORTHPORT ELEMENTARYElementary · 488 students
Other schools in NEW HOPE
- ROBBINSDALE COOPER SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,396 students
- Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion El.Elementary · 733 students
- SONNESYN ELEMENTARYElementary · 313 students
- EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATIONElementary · 271 students
- Escuela ExitosElementary · 231 students
- North Education Center AcademyHigh · 37 students
Nearby schools
- Prairie Seeds Middle School Academy0.7 mi · 219
- Prairie Seeds High School Academy0.7 mi · 282
- Prairie Seeds El School Academy0.7 mi · 359
- North Education Center Academy0.8 mi · 37
- ROBBINSDALE TRANSITION CENTER1.3 mi · 49
- ADULT ACADEMICS1.3 mi · 1
Frequently asked questions
About MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARYHow many students attend MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY?
MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 488 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY serve?
MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY.
How diverse is MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY?
MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 9% White, 16% Hispanic, 55% Black, 8% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY public or private?
MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.