Northrop Elementary

Northrop Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, run under Minneapolis Public School District. The school caters to 381 students in grades K through 5.

Minneapolis Public School District comprises 86 schools with combined enrollment of 29,928 students; Northrop Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Northrop Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 76%; the rest reads as 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Northrop Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 17% of students at Northrop Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, Northrop Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.6%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hennepin County put median household income runs about $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Northrop Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Friendship Academy of Arts - Interm, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Northrop Elementary. On composite proficiency, Northrop Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

Northrop Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northrop Elementary has declined 24%, going from 499 students in 2018 to 381 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 9% to 5% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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