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Alumni: what's one memory from University Avenue Elementary - Aero that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
557
Elementary
DISTRICT 599 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANOKA-HENNEPIN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 270318000126
University Avenue Elementary - Aero
9901 UNIVERSITY AVE NE, BLAINE, MN 55434 · (763) 506-4500 · Anoka County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL557 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 36% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
13.2:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
321 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 48%
Community
5
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 | 26 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (82).
Student demographics
73%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
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
36.2%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
49.1%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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
36.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.1%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 University Avenue Elementary - Aero
University Avenue Elementary - Aero's state test result (36.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Avenue Elementary - Aero this school | 557 | 57.6% | 36.6% |
| Sunset Terrace Elementary School ROCHESTER | 437 | 55.8% | 35.9% |
| Mississippi Elementary COON RAPIDS | 439 | 57.2% | 46.9% |
| Centerview Elementary BLAINE | 685 | 56.8% | 35.5% |
| Hoover Elementary BioMed Sci Egng COON RAPIDS | 469 | 55.2% | 51.7% |
| Pike Lake Kindergarten Center NEW BRIGHTON | 733 | 52.0% | N/A |
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 University Avenue Elementary - Aero ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Anoka County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.6% | #584 of 844 | #34 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.1% | #452 of 844 | #27 of 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.2% | #628 of 844 | #33 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 557 | #217 of 1,130 | #22 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #317 of 769 | #15 of 46 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.8% | #74 of 796 | #7 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.6% | #247 of 942 | #13 of 50 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.7% | #344 of 499 | #21 of 27 |
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
557
-85 (-13%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 621
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 557 | 42.3 | 13.2:1 | 58% (321) |
| 2023-24 | 615 | 39.6 | 15.5:1 | 58% (357) |
| 2022-23 | 608 | 42.6 | 14.3:1 | 61% (370) |
| 2020-21 | 642 | 42 | 15.3:1 | 48% (305) |
| 2017-18 | 610 | 34.2 | 17.9:1 | 54% (331) |
| 2015-16 | 566 | 34 | 16.6:1 | 55% (312) |
| 2010-11 | 457 | 28 | 16.3:1 | 59% (269) |
| 2000-01 | 534 | 31 | 17.2:1 | 31% (166) |
| 1990-91 | 621 | 28 | 22.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for University Avenue Elementary - Aero.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (610 to 557); teachers up 24% (34.2 to 42.3).
About University Avenue Elementary - Aero
University Avenue Elementary - Aero is a large elementary school in BLAINE, Minnesota, under Anoka-Hennepin School District. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 557 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Minnesota enroll about 344 students on average.
University Avenue Elementary - Aero is one school in Anoka-Hennepin School District, a system of 53 schools with 38,746 students.
No group is above 50% at University Avenue Elementary - Aero; the largest is White, at 42%. Beyond that, enrollment is 24% Black, 11% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, and 10% Asian. The White share of the county population is higher, at 75%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, University Avenue Elementary - Aero scores 73%.
University Avenue Elementary - Aero has 42.3 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1. The average for elementary schools in Minnesota is about 13.7:1. The school has 58% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 42% average for public schools in Anoka County is 16 points lower.
On the allk12 Grade, University Avenue Elementary - Aero lands at C+, ahead of 36% of Minnesota public elementary schools.
Test results at University Avenue Elementary - Aero are 2.5 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (36.6% actual, 34.1% predicted).
In Anoka County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $101,869 a year, roughly 32% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Public schools in Anoka County number 145, with about 59,656 students.
University Avenue Elementary - Aero's nearest public school is Paladin Career and Tech High School (about 0.7 miles). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of University Avenue Elementary - Aero. Of the 6 nearby schools with scores, including this one, University Avenue Elementary - Aero is 4th on average proficiency.
University Avenue Elementary - Aero falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment figures show a decrease of 85 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.3:1 to 13.2:1 over the same years.
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Anoka County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
370,349
Census ACS
Median income
$101,869
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
145
59,656 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Anoka-Hennepin School District
- Blaine High SchoolHigh · 3,157 students
- Champlin Park High SchoolHigh · 2,978 students
- Anoka High SchoolHigh · 2,348 students
- Jackson MiddleMiddle · 2,037 students
- Coon Rapids High SchoolHigh · 1,975 students
- Andover High SchoolHigh · 1,758 students
Other schools in BLAINE
- Blaine High SchoolHigh · 3,157 students
- Westwood Intermediate & Middle SchMiddle · 1,646 students
- Roosevelt MiddleMiddle · 1,087 students
- Sunrise ElementaryElementary · 1,015 students
- Centerview ElementaryElementary · 685 students
- Jefferson ElementaryElementary · 650 students
Nearby schools
- Paladin Career and Tech High School0.7 mi · 257
- Madison Elementary0.8 mi · 369
- Westwood Intermediate & Middle Sch0.9 mi · 1,646
- Eisenhower Elementary1.5 mi · 491
- Star of the North - Coon Rapids1.7 mi · 120
- Anoka-Hennepin Regional High School1.7 mi · 203
Frequently asked questions
About University Avenue Elementary - AeroHow large is University Avenue Elementary - Aero?
University Avenue Elementary - Aero enrolls approximately 557 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does University Avenue Elementary - Aero serve?
University Avenue Elementary - Aero serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at University Avenue Elementary - Aero?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at University Avenue Elementary - Aero.
How diverse is University Avenue Elementary - Aero?
University Avenue Elementary - Aero reports a student body of 42% White, 11% Hispanic, 24% Black, 10% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is University Avenue Elementary - Aero public or private?
University Avenue Elementary - Aero is a public K-12 school, overseen by Anoka-Hennepin School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.