PETER HOBART ELEMENTARY

Set in SAINT LOUIS PARK, Minnesota, PETER HOBART ELEMENTARY is a mid-sized elementary school, operated by ST. LOUIS PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.. It hosts 435 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% larger than the state mean of about 344.

Within ST. LOUIS PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST., which oversees 10 schools and 4,446 students, PETER HOBART ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Demographically, PETER HOBART ELEMENTARY logs that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 20% Black, 16% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at PETER HOBART ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, PETER HOBART ELEMENTARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) reports that median household earnings sit near $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PETER HOBART ELEMENTARY is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

Nearest neighbor: TRANSITION PLUS, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PETER HOBART ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PETER HOBART ELEMENTARY at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 44.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PETER HOBART ELEMENTARY has contracted 17%, going from 524 students in 2018 to 435 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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