MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY

MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY is an elementary-level community of heavily attended scale in GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, part of HOPKINS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 792 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY sits 130% above that benchmark.

Within HOPKINS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 14 schools and 7,129 students, MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY reports that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 14% Black, 11% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Hennepin County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.8%, the actual is 49.9%, a residual of -3.9 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hennepin County put the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is VirtualEDU ELementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 778 (now 792). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 72% to 67% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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