RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY

Set in DULUTH, Minnesota, RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY is a small K-5 school, run under DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACADEMY. It caters to 208 students across grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 40% below the state mean of about 344.

DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACADEMY runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 780 students. RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY reports that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 15% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 90% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 51% of students at RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of St. Louis County's rate of about 40%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.4%, the actual is 31.3%, a residual of -6.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for St. Louis County put median household income runs about $70,069, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, St. Louis County runs 100 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,921 students), of which RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 39.7%.

RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY operates from an inner-city location. As a public charter, RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 32%: 306 students in 2018 compared to 208 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 71% across the same window.

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