Summary
Hmong International Elementary is a PK–5 school in Minneapolis, MN, serving 258 students as part of the Minneapolis Public School District, a district ranked 310th of 458 in Minnesota. In 2025–2026, the school ranked 840th of 869 Minnesota elementary schools (3rd percentile, 0 stars), a slight improvement over 879th of 881 in 2023–2024. About 92.25% of its students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and its student-teacher ratio was 9.5, which is middle-of-the-pack among nearby schools.
In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency was 12.6% in math, 9.2% in reading, and 3.6% in science — far below the district (37.1%, 41.8%, 21.7%) and the state (44.9%, 48.6%, 25.5%). Even so, there are pockets of strength. Fourth-grade math reached 29.0%, well above the school's own 3rd grade (2.9%) and 5th grade (6.9%), and above every nearby same-district school for that grade: Bethune Elementary (5.9%), Lucy Laney Elementary (16.4%), Cityview Elementary (11.5%), Hall Academy Elementary (9.4%), and Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary (5.3%). Math has also been climbing — 3.81% in 2023–2024, 8.7% in 2024–2025, and 12.6% now — while reading has stayed roughly flat and science remains very low.
The clearest outlier in the data is the school's English Language Learner subgroup rank: 19th of 305 Minnesota schools (94th percentile, 5 stars) in 2025–2026, dramatically higher than the school's overall rank, though it was only in the 4th–5th percentile the two prior years, so it is worth watching. Most other subgroup results are low. High poverty is common in this area: nearby schools range from about 88% to 97% free/reduced lunch, and Twin Cities International Schools has 99.33% yet posts higher scores, while Spero Academy has 31.08% and stronger reading and science. Overall, this is a bottom-ranked school where 4th-grade math and the ELL result stand out.
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