RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY

RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY, a moderately sized elementary-level community in BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota, one of the schools within Bloomington Public Schools, instructs 390 students, covering grades K through 5.

RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY is one of 22 schools operated by Bloomington Public Schools, a district that instructs 10,442 students overall.

On demographics, RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY reports that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Black, 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 52.3%; this one delivers 68.9%, a residual of +16.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hennepin County put median household earnings sit near $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is NORMANDALE HILLS ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY has changed only slightly, going from 382 students in 2018 to 390 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 7% to 13%.

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