STEP Academy Elementary

Set in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, STEP Academy Elementary is an intimate K-5 school, operated by STEP Academy. It works with 214 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so STEP Academy Elementary sits 38% smaller than that benchmark.

STEP Academy runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 847 students. STEP Academy Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, STEP Academy Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (99%). The wider county runs roughly 12% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Ramsey County's rate of about 57%.

After controlling for student poverty, STEP Academy Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 14.3%, the actual is 20.5%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Around the school, census data for Ramsey County shows median household income runs about $81,568, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. STEP Academy Elementary is one of 302 public schools in Ramsey County (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students).

Nearest neighbor: STEP Academy Charter School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STEP Academy Elementary. On composite proficiency, STEP Academy Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 18.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. STEP Academy Elementary 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. STEP Academy Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 42% since 2018, when it stood at 151 (now 214). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 122.8:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the STEP Academy Elementary community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.