Pratt Elementary

Pratt Elementary is one of the compact K-5 schools in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, overseen by Minneapolis Public School District, with 196 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 43% smaller than the state mean of about 344.

Minneapolis Public School District runs 86 schools in total, collectively educating 29,928 students. Pratt Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Pratt Elementary reports that the largest single group is Black, at 59% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 16% Hispanic, 13% White, 7% multiracial, 3% Native American. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.9:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pratt Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.9%, the actual is 29.6%, a residual of +5.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Pratt Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Venture Academy High School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pratt Elementary comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.0%.

Pratt Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 29%: 278 students in 2018 compared to 196 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 29% to 13%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 7.9:1 in 2025.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.