ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL

ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary campus in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, run under St. Paul City School. The school teaches 313 students in grades pre-K through 5.

St. Paul City School runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 615 students. ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% Black, 20% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Ramsey County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.0%, the actual is 7.1%, a residual of -9.8 points.

Across the wider county, Ramsey County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,568 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Ramsey County runs 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), of which ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL is one.

ST. PAUL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ST. PAUL CITY PRIMARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 19.0%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 337 students in 2018 compared to 313 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share fell from 28% to 20%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.