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Enrollment
390
Elementary
DISTRICT 376 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 270579000234
RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY
9400 NESBITT RD, BLOOMINGTON, MN 55438 · (952) 806-7100 · Hennepin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL390 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
93 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 48%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 42 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 42% smaller than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · 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
72.8%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
72.3%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
68.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.3%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Minnesota's top 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 RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY
RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY's state test result (68.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY this school | 390 | 23.8% | 68.9% |
| HILLCREST ELEMENTARY BLOOMINGTON | 373 | 20.9% | 45.5% |
| Randolph Heights Elementary SAINT PAUL | 448 | 25.9% | 70.6% |
| NORTHVIEW ELEMENTARY EAGAN | 396 | 22.2% | 60.8% |
| GLEN LAKE ELEMENTARY MINNETONKA | 465 | 23.2% | 54.9% |
| MENDOTA ELEMENTARY MENDOTA HEIGHTS | 358 | 24.9% | 61.5% |
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 RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Hennepin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.9% | #38 of 844 | #24 of 169 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.3% | #87 of 844 | #32 of 169 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.8% | #38 of 844 | #24 of 169 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 390 | #500 of 1,130 | #112 of 206 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #414 of 769 | #76 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.8% | #368 of 796 | #112 of 165 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.8% | #772 of 942 | #140 of 183 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.1% | #200 of 244 | #41 of 50 |
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
390
+21 (+6%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 473
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 390 | 28.2 | 13.8:1 | 24% (93) |
| 2023-24 | 401 | 27.3 | 14.7:1 | 26% (106) |
| 2022-23 | 402 | 28.5 | 14.1:1 | 24% (95) |
| 2020-21 | 369 | 23 | 16.0:1 | 19% (71) |
| 2017-18 | 382 | 26.2 | 14.6:1 | 18% (69) |
| 2015-16 | 392 | 24 | 16.3:1 | 21% (82) |
| 2010-11 | 432 | 25 | 17.3:1 | 27% (115) |
| 2000-01 | 320 | 19 | 16.8:1 | 22% (71) |
| 1990-91 | 473 | 19 | 24.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (382 to 390); teachers up 8% (26.2 to 28.2).
About RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY
RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY is a public mid-sized elementary school in BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota. It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 390 students enrolled.
RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY is in Bloomington Public Schools, a district with 10,442 students across 22 schools.
Federal enrollment data show RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY is 68% White. The next largest groups are 13% Black, 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. In Hennepin County overall, the White share is about 66%. A diversity index of 51% means there is a 51% chance two randomly chosen students at RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY are from different groups.
Teacher count: 28.2 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 13.8:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Minnesota is similar, at 13.7:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 24%. Compared with the 43% average for public schools in Hennepin County, the school's rate is lower.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 52.3% for RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 68.9%. The 16.6-point gap ranks in the top 10% of Minnesota schools.
American Community Survey estimates for Hennepin County show that the median household earns about $97,653 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 54%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Hennepin County has 496 public schools with about 177,509 students, including RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY.
NORMANDALE HILLS ELEMENTARY is the nearest public school to RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY, about 0.6 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 46.1% proficiency; RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY posts 68.9%.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Small.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 369 to 390, a 6% rise. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 16.0:1 in 2020-21 to 13.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Hennepin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,269,496
Census ACS
Median income
$97,653
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
496
177,509 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bloomington Public Schools
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,684 students
- Kennedy High SchoolHigh · 1,578 students
- OLSON MIDDLEMiddle · 762 students
- OAK GROVE MIDDLEMiddle · 711 students
- VALLEY VIEW MIDDLEMiddle · 647 students
- OLSON ELEMENTARYElementary · 524 students
Other schools in BLOOMINGTON
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,684 students
- Kennedy High SchoolHigh · 1,578 students
- OLSON MIDDLEMiddle · 762 students
- OAK GROVE MIDDLEMiddle · 711 students
- VALLEY VIEW MIDDLEMiddle · 647 students
- BLUESKY CHARTER SCHOOLHigh · 634 students
Other Ridgeview Elementary schools
20 other US public schools in 16 states are named Ridgeview Elementary. RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY is the 14th largest of the 21.
- Ridgeview Elementary SchoolGray, TN · 704 students
- Ridgeview ElementaryClintwood, VA · 667 students
- Ridgeview Elementary SchoolCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO · 626 students
- Ridgeview ElementaryGranite Bay, CA · 619 students
- RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLORANGE PARK, FL · 592 students
Nearby schools
- NORMANDALE HILLS ELEMENTARY0.6 mi · 440
- OLSON ELEMENTARY1.4 mi · 524
- OLSON MIDDLE1.5 mi · 762
- POPLAR BRIDGE ELEMENTARY1.6 mi · 475
- Jefferson High School1.7 mi · 1,684
- International Spanish Language Acad2.1 mi · 447
Frequently asked questions
About RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARYHow many students attend RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY?
RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 390 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY serve?
RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY is approximately 13.8:1 (28 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY are roughly 68% White, 6% Hispanic, 13% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY public or private?
RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by Bloomington Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.