Monroe Elementary School - MSE

Monroe Elementary School - MSE is an elementary-level community of sprawling scale in BROOKLYN PARK, Minnesota, operated by Anoka-Hennepin School District, teacheing 553 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 61% above typical.

Monroe Elementary School - MSE is one of 53 schools operated by Anoka-Hennepin School District, a district that works with 38,746 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Monroe Elementary School - MSE records that 30% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 24% Black, 23% White, 13% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 7% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Monroe Elementary School - MSE higher than the state norm the norm. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Monroe Elementary School - MSE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.9%, the actual is 45.6%, a residual of +5.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Hennepin County shows 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), Monroe Elementary School - MSE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Spero Academy Brooklyn Park, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Monroe Elementary School - MSE. On composite proficiency, Monroe Elementary School - MSE comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 21.0%.

Monroe Elementary School - MSE operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Monroe Elementary School - MSE has declined 16%, going from 655 students in 2018 to 553 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 31% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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