Enrollment
208
Elementary
DISTRICT 390 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACADEMY·NCES 270013303031
RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY
5905 RALEIGH ST, DULUTH, MN 55807 · (218) 628-0697 · St. Louis County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL208 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 16% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
107 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 48%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 22 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 26 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 33 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 25 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 15 | 7% |
This year's kindergarten class (22) is 47% larger than its 6th grade class (15).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
42.9%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
30.2%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
31.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.4%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY
RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY's state test result (31.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY this school | 208 | 51.4% | 31.3% |
| NORTH WOODS ELEMENTARY COOK | 234 | 50.0% | 39.4% |
| ISLE ELEMENTARY ISLE | 200 | 52.5% | 44.0% |
| CLEARBROOK-GONVICK ELEMENTARY CLEARBROOK | 254 | 51.6% | 44.9% |
| GARFIELD ELEMENTARY BRAINERD | 250 | 52.4% | 34.1% |
| CEDAR MOUNTAIN ELEMENTARY FRANKLIN | 171 | 55.0% | 51.5% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In St. Louis County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.3% | #663 of 844 | #23 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.2% | #682 of 844 | #22 of 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #539 of 844 | #22 of 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 208 | #787 of 1,130 | #27 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #227 of 769 | #9 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.6% | #405 of 796 | #6 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.4% | #314 of 942 | #10 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.0% | #57 of 499 | #4 of 19 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
208
-27 (-11%) vs 2020
+12% since 2000-01, when it was 186
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 9.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 208 | 16.7 | 12.5:1 | 51% (107) |
| 2023-24 | 172 | 17.8 | 9.7:1 | 50% (86) |
| 2022-23 | 192 | 18.1 | 10.6:1 | 60% (116) |
| 2020-21 | 235 | 24 | 9.8:1 | 46% (108) |
| 2017-18 | 306 | 26.2 | 11.7:1 | 53% (162) |
| 2015-16 | 289 | 22 | 13.1:1 | 57% (166) |
| 2010-11 | 283 | 20 | 14.2:1 | 63% (179) |
| 2000-01 | 186 | 11 | 16.9:1 | 63% (118) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (306 to 208); teachers down 36% (26.2 to 16.7).
About RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY
RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY is a low-enrollment elementary school in DULUTH, Minnesota, (ZIP code 55807). Students in pre-K through 6 make up the school's enrollment of 208 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Minnesota enroll about 344 students on average.
DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACADEMY, which runs RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY, has 2 schools and 780 students.
More than half of the students at RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY are White (71%). The next largest groups are 15% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black, and 2% Native American. In St. Louis County overall, about 90% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY scores 47%.
For every teacher at RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY, there are about 12.5 students; the school has 16.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Minnesota is 13.7:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. There are 107 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 51% of enrollment. On average, public schools in St. Louis County report 40%.
RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 16% of Minnesota public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY, the prediction is 37.4% and the result is 31.3%.
The county, St. Louis County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $70,069 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Counting RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY, St. Louis County has 100 public schools.
RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY's nearest public school is LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY (about 0.9 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY. Of the 6 nearby schools with scores, including this one, RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY is 4th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000. RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY holds a charter, making it a public charter school.
Enrollment fell by 11% across 4 years, from 235 in 2020-21 to 208 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 9.8:1 in 2020-21 to 12.5:1 in 2024-25.
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St. Louis County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
200,123
Census ACS
Median income
$70,069
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
100
23,921 students
Quick facts
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- LINCOLN PARK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 606 students
- NORTH STAR ACADEMYElementary · 572 students
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Nearby schools
- LAURA MACARTHUR ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 277
- ALC SWS Denfeld1.3 mi · 57
- DENFELD HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 951
- MERRITT CREEK ACADEMY2.0 mi · 75
- Bay View Elementary2.0 mi · 529
- LINCOLN PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL2.4 mi · 606
Frequently asked questions
About RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMYHow many students attend RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY?
RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY enrolls approximately 208 students in grades PK-06.
Is RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY an elementary, middle, or high school?
RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many students per teacher at RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY?
Approximately 12.5:1 students per teacher at RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY.
What is the racial breakdown of students at RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY?
At RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY, the student body is approximately 71% White, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Is RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY public or private?
RALEIGH PRIMARY/EL ACADEMY is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACADEMY.
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