POPLAR BRIDGE ELEMENTARY

POPLAR BRIDGE ELEMENTARY is an elementary-level community of medium-sized scale in BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota, run under Bloomington Public Schools, enrolling 475 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so POPLAR BRIDGE ELEMENTARY sits 38% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Bloomington Public Schools, which oversees 22 schools and 10,442 students, POPLAR BRIDGE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, POPLAR BRIDGE ELEMENTARY shows that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 16% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian.

On the resource side, On paper, POPLAR BRIDGE ELEMENTARY has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 33% of students at POPLAR BRIDGE ELEMENTARY qualify 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, POPLAR BRIDGE ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.5%; this one delivers 50.3%.

In the broader community, census data for Hennepin County shows median household income runs about $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. POPLAR BRIDGE ELEMENTARY is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

Nearest neighbor: School #532, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around POPLAR BRIDGE ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, POPLAR BRIDGE ELEMENTARY comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 485 students in 2018 compared to 475 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.