Parnassus Prep Sch-Grammar

Parnassus Prep Sch-Grammar is an elementary-level community of roomy scale in MAPLE GROVE, Minnesota, overseen by Parnassus Preparatory School, teacheing 623 students in grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 81% bigger than the state mean of about 344.

Within Parnassus Preparatory School, which oversees 3 schools and 1,352 students, Parnassus Prep Sch-Grammar is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Parnassus Prep Sch-Grammar shows that the largest single group is Black at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 21% White, 16% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 49% of students at Parnassus Prep Sch-Grammar qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Parnassus Prep Sch-Grammar tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.6%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Parnassus Prep Sch-Grammar is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

Nearest neighbor: Parnassus Prep School-Rhetoric, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Parnassus Prep Sch-Grammar ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. Parnassus Prep Sch-Grammar is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 632 students in 2018 compared to 623 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 46% to 21%. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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