SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING-ARTS AT OLSON

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING-ARTS AT OLSON is a mid-tier elementary school in GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, operated by ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school hosts 432 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING-ARTS AT OLSON sits 26% above that benchmark.

ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 10,821 students; SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING-ARTS AT OLSON is among them.

In terms of who attends, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING-ARTS AT OLSON records that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 12% multiracial, 12% Black, 9% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Hennepin County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

With demographic context factored in, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING-ARTS AT OLSON performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.8%, the actual is 55.7%, a residual of +7.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING-ARTS AT OLSON is one.

Nearest neighbor: Robbinsdale Virtual Academy K-5, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING-ARTS AT OLSON at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 38.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING-ARTS AT OLSON's enrollment has declined 3% since 2018, when it stood at 445 (now 432). Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING-ARTS AT OLSON typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.