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Enrollment
533
Elementary
DISTRICT 344 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. LOUIS PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.·NCES 273378002653
PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY
9400 CEDAR LAKE RD, SAINT LOUIS PARK, MN 55426 · (952) 928-6555 · Hennepin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL533 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
16.7:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
57 students
DISTRICT 37% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 96 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (96) is 19% larger than its 5th grade class (81).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
70.6%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
76.6%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 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
66.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.3%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY
PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY's state test result (66.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY this school | 533 | 10.7% | 66.2% |
| La Ola Del Lago at Grainwood PRIOR LAKE | 463 | 14.3% | 57.0% |
| EAGLE HEIGHTS SPANISH IMMERSION EDEN PRAIRIE | 759 | 9.2% | 75.8% |
| DEEPHAVEN ELEMENTARY WAYZATA | 681 | 15.3% | 64.3% |
| SHANNON PARK ELEMENTARY ROSEMOUNT | 508 | 10.8% | 65.1% |
| COUNTRYSIDE ELEMENTARY EDINA | 665 | 15.2% | 67.3% |
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 PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Hennepin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.2% | #59 of 844 | #31 of 169 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.6% | #54 of 844 | #23 of 169 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.6% | #47 of 844 | #27 of 169 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 533 | #245 of 1,130 | #60 of 206 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #684 of 769 | #143 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.2% | #408 of 796 | #118 of 165 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.7% | #921 of 942 | #170 of 183 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.9% | #183 of 244 | #39 of 50 |
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
533
+15 (+3%) vs 2020
+58% since 2000-01, when it was 338
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 18.5:1
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 | 533 | 32 | 16.7:1 | 11% (57) |
| 2023-24 | 526 | 29 | 18.1:1 | 13% (71) |
| 2022-23 | 530 | 27.1 | 19.5:1 | 14% (72) |
| 2020-21 | 518 | 28 | 18.5:1 | 9% (47) |
| 2017-18 | 513 | 28.6 | 17.9:1 | 16% (81) |
| 2015-16 | 503 | 27 | 18.6:1 | 21% (105) |
| 2010-11 | 518 | 26 | 19.9:1 | 15% (77) |
| 2000-01 | 338 | 27 | 12.5:1 | 5% (16) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (513 to 533); teachers up 12% (28.6 to 32).
About PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY
Among the schools in SAINT LOUIS PARK, Minnesota, is PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY, a large elementary school. The school enrolls 533 students in kindergarten through 5. Across elementary schools in Minnesota, the average enrollment is about 344.
The ST. LOUIS PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. system has 10 schools and 4,446 students.
More than half of enrollment at PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY is White: 71%. Next come 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 2% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY scores 46%.
For every teacher at PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY, there are about 16.7 students; the school has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Minnesota, 13.7:1, is lower. There are 57 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 11% of enrollment. The average for public schools in Hennepin County is 43%.
Among Minnesota public elementary schools, PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY outscored 83%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY would be expected to post about 59.3%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 66.2%.
In the wider Hennepin County area, median household income comes to about $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hennepin County counts 496 public schools with about 177,509 students.
Hopkins High School is about 0.7 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 8.
The NCES locale for PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment was 533 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 518. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 18.5:1 to 16.7:1.
PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 ST. LOUIS PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.
- ST. LOUIS PARK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,397 students
- ST. LOUIS PARK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 965 students
- AQUILA ELEMENTARYElementary · 498 students
- SUSAN LINDGREN ELEMENTARYElementary · 457 students
- PETER HOBART ELEMENTARYElementary · 435 students
- ST. LOUIS PARK SPECIAL ED. PROGRAMElementary · 135 students
Other schools in SAINT LOUIS PARK
- ST. LOUIS PARK SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,397 students
- ST. LOUIS PARK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 965 students
- AQUILA ELEMENTARYElementary · 498 students
- SUSAN LINDGREN ELEMENTARYElementary · 457 students
- PETER HOBART ELEMENTARYElementary · 435 students
- ST. LOUIS PARK SPECIAL ED. PROGRAMElementary · 135 students
Nearby schools
- Hopkins High School0.7 mi · 2,003
- Hopkins North Middle School0.7 mi · 866
- AQUILA ELEMENTARY0.8 mi · 498
- L.H. TANGLEN ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 521
- ST. LOUIS PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 965
- EISENHOWER ELEMENTARY1.6 mi · 504
Frequently asked questions
About PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARYHow large is PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY?
PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 533 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY serve?
PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 16.7:1 students per teacher at PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY.
What is the racial breakdown of students at PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY?
At PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 71% White, 16% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY?
PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY is overseen by ST. LOUIS PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. in Hennepin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.