Paul & Sheila Wellstone Elementary

Paul & Sheila Wellstone Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, one of the schools within Saint Paul Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 492 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 43% above typical.

Saint Paul Public Schools runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 33,152 students. Paul & Sheila Wellstone Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Paul & Sheila Wellstone Elementary logs that 46% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 21% Asian, 18% Black, 10% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 8% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Paul & Sheila Wellstone Elementary has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.2:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 79% of students at Paul & Sheila Wellstone Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ramsey County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Paul & Sheila Wellstone Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.6%; this one delivers 12.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Ramsey County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,568 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Ramsey County's 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), Paul & Sheila Wellstone Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Prodeo Academy St. Paul Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Paul & Sheila Wellstone Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Paul & Sheila Wellstone Elementary has contracted 9%, going from 539 students in 2018 to 492 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 51% to 46% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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