WASHBURN ELEMENTARY

Set in BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota, WASHBURN ELEMENTARY is a mid-tier elementary campus, one of the schools within Bloomington Public Schools. It educates 298 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 22 schools in Bloomington Public Schools (10,442 students total), WASHBURN ELEMENTARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, WASHBURN ELEMENTARY records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% White, 16% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting WASHBURN ELEMENTARY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WASHBURN ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.4%, the actual is 31.6%, a residual of +2.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate median household income runs about $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), WASHBURN ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

New Code Academy Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WASHBURN ELEMENTARY.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 36%: 466 students in 2018 compared to 298 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 30% to 16% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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