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PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY
PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY is an elementary school of well-populated scale in SAINT LOUIS PARK, Minnesota, run under ST. LOUIS PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST., works with 533 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 55% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.
ST. LOUIS PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 4,446 students; PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY is among them.
Looking at the student body, PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY reports that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 2% Black.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.3%; this one delivers 66.2%.
In the area at large, census data for Hennepin County shows median household earnings sit near $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.
Hopkins High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.2%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARK SPANISH IMMERSION ELEMENTARY has rose 4%, going from 513 students in 2018 to 533 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Hennepin County at a glance
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