ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL

ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL, an one-room-style junior high in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, operated by St. Paul City School, teaches 150 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 70% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in St. Paul City School (615 students total), ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 21% Black, 17% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

In terms of school funding signals, ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Ramsey County's rate of about 57%.

After controlling for student poverty, ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 17.8%; this one delivers 8.3%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Ramsey County) logs that median household income runs about $81,568, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Ramsey County runs 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), of which ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: St. Paul City High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 18.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 8%: 139 students in 2018 compared to 150 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment shrank from 30% to 17% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

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