Enrollment
313
Elementary
DISTRICT 205 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. PAUL CITY SCHOOL·NCES 270014202721
ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL
215 UNIVERSITY AVE W, SAINT PAUL, MN 55103 · (651) 225-9177 · Ramsey County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL313 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
13.6:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
280 students
DISTRICT 89% · 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 | 31 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (48).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within St. Paul City School. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
9.7%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
6.3%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 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
7.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.0%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 7% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL
ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL's state test result (7.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL this school | 313 | 89.5% | 7.1% |
| Paul & Sheila Wellstone Elementary SAINT PAUL | 492 | 79.1% | 12.5% |
| ACHIEVE LANGUAGE ACADEMY SAINT PAUL | 451 | 81.2% | 18.7% |
| VALLEY VIEW ELEMENTARY BLOOMINGTON | 487 | 83.4% | 11.8% |
| Four Seasons Elementary SAINT PAUL | 256 | 91.4% | 3.8% |
| Folwell Elementary MINNEAPOLIS | 450 | 89.8% | 10.0% |
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 ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Ramsey County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 7.1% | #837 of 844 | #90 of 93 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 6.3% | #834 of 844 | #89 of 93 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 9.7% | #833 of 844 | #90 of 93 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 313 | #616 of 1,130 | #69 of 119 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #384 of 769 | #47 of 83 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.6% | #220 of 796 | #51 of 86 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.5% | #45 of 942 | #16 of 101 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.1% | #372 of 499 | #40 of 55 |
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
313
+16 (+5%) vs 2020
+54% since 2000-01, when it was 203
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 313 | 23 | 13.6:1 | 89% (280) |
| 2023-24 | 299 | 22.6 | 13.2:1 | 79% (237) |
| 2022-23 | 295 | 21.6 | 13.6:1 | 90% (266) |
| 2020-21 | 297 | 20 | 14.8:1 | 88% (262) |
| 2017-18 | 337 | 20.7 | 16.3:1 | 93% (315) |
| 2015-16 | 307 | 19 | 16.2:1 | 98% (300) |
| 2010-11 | 232 | 17 | 13.7:1 | 94% (219) |
| 2000-01 | 203 | 18 | 11.3:1 | 92% (187) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (337 to 313); teachers up 11% (20.7 to 23).
About ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL
At 215 UNIVERSITY AVE W in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized elementary school. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 313 students.
ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL is a school in St. Paul City School. The district has 3 schools and 615 students.
The student body at ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL is 51% Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 23% Black, 20% Asian, and 4% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 8%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 65, compared with 70 nationally.
ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1, with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota. The school has 89% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Ramsey County is 57%.
Among Minnesota public elementary schools, ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL outscored 1%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL is 9.8 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 7.1% actual, 17.0% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Minnesota.
American Community Survey estimates for Ramsey County show that median household income comes to about $81,568, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county's public schools total 302, with about 94,437 students.
Of the public schools around it, ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL is closest to St. Paul City High School, less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 19.0% on proficiency, and ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL is below that at 7.1%.
NCES describes the area around ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. As a charter school, ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL is publicly funded and operates under a charter.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 313, from 297 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 14.8:1 to 13.6:1 over the same years.
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Ramsey County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
542,945
Census ACS
Median income
$81,568
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
302
94,437 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Paul City School
- St. Paul City High SchoolHigh · 152 students
- ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 150 students
Other schools in SAINT PAUL
- Minnesota Connections Academy 7-12High · 3,536 students
- Central Senior HighHigh · 1,682 students
- Harding Senior HighHigh · 1,591 students
- Highland Park Senior HighHigh · 1,392 students
- Johnson Senior HighHigh · 1,076 students
- Capitol Hill Magnet/RondoElementary · 1,066 students
Nearby schools
- St. Paul City High School0.0 mi · 152
- ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 150
- East African Magnet School0.5 mi · 296
- Upper Mississippi High Academy0.7 mi · 102
- Upper Mississippi Middle Academy0.7 mi · 54
- Juvenile Service Center0.8 mi · 9
Frequently asked questions
About ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOLHow many students attend ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL?
ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 313 students in grades PK-05.
Is ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL have?
ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1.
What is the student diversity at ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL are roughly 2% White, 51% Hispanic, 23% Black, 20% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL?
ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL is overseen by St. Paul City School in Ramsey County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.