The Heights Community School

The Heights Community School is one of the mid-tier elementary campuss in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, part of Saint Paul Public Schools, with 346 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Saint Paul Public Schools runs 87 schools in total, collectively educating 33,152 students. The Heights Community School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, The Heights Community School shows that 40% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 22% Hispanic, 20% Black, 9% White, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 15% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Ramsey County (around 57%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, The Heights Community School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.5%, the actual is 16.4%, a residual of -3.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Ramsey County shows median household earnings sit near $81,568, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Ramsey County runs 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), of which The Heights Community School is one.

The closest other public school is Early Education Heights Comm, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, The Heights Community School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 25.3%.

The Heights Community School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at The Heights Community School has fell 29%, going from 489 students in 2018 to 346 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 33% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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