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PARKVIEW CENTER SCHOOL
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PARKVIEW CENTER SCHOOL
Set in ROSEVILLE, Minnesota, PARKVIEW CENTER SCHOOL is a well-populated K-5 school, overseen by ROSEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 718 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so PARKVIEW CENTER SCHOOL sits 109% bigger than that benchmark.
ROSEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 7,256 students. PARKVIEW CENTER SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
Demographically, PARKVIEW CENTER SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 21% Black, 12% multiracial, 12% Asian, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Ramsey County's rate of about 57%.
With demographic context factored in, PARKVIEW CENTER SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.8%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Ramsey County indicate median household earnings sit near $81,568, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ramsey County runs 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), of which PARKVIEW CENTER SCHOOL is one.
CENTRAL PARK ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PARKVIEW CENTER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, PARKVIEW CENTER SCHOOL comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 27.4%.
PARKVIEW CENTER SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.
Over the past 7-year window. PARKVIEW CENTER SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 776 (now 718). The White share of enrollment shrank from 60% to 47% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.
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