The FAIR School - Crystal

Set in CRYSTAL, Minnesota, The FAIR School - Crystal is a moderately sized 6-8 campus, run under ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 439 students across grades 6 through 8.

The FAIR School - Crystal is one of 25 schools operated by ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 10,821 students overall.

Demographically, The FAIR School - Crystal shows that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 25% Black, 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, The FAIR School - Crystal performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.6%, the actual is 40.0%, a residual of -0.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) records that the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), The FAIR School - Crystal is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ROBBINSDALE MIDDLE, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), The FAIR School - Crystal ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 25.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at The FAIR School - Crystal has contracted 11%, going from 491 students in 2018 to 439 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 49% to 25% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

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