PALMER LAKE ELEMENTARY

PALMER LAKE ELEMENTARY is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in BROOKLYN PARK, Minnesota, part of OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 493 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 43% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Within OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 31 schools and 21,138 students, PALMER LAKE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, PALMER LAKE ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is Asian at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% Black, 14% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 7% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting PALMER LAKE ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 63% of students at PALMER LAKE ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PALMER LAKE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.1%, the actual is 26.3%, a residual of -4.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hennepin County put median household income runs about $97,653, 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), PALMER LAKE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Brooklyn Middle STEAM School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PALMER LAKE ELEMENTARY. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PALMER LAKE ELEMENTARY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 21.7%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. PALMER LAKE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has fell 9% since 2018, when it stood at 542 (now 493). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 41% to 31% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.