Summary:
ZIP code 55071 (Saint Paul Park, Minnesota) is served by two schools, both elementary and both part of the South Washington County Schools district: Nuevas Fronteras Spanish Immersion (K–5, 561 students) and Pullman Elementary (PK–5, 420 students). Together they enroll 981 students, and because there are no middle or high schools in the ZIP, every tested student here is in grades 3–5.
Nuevas Fronteras Spanish Immersion is the academic standout. It is the only school in the area to beat the state average in math (50.4% vs. 44.9%) and science (26.7% vs. 25.5%), ranks 447 of 869 schools statewide (49th percentile, 2 stars), and has the lower poverty rate (18.36% free/reduced lunch). Its strongest result is 4th grade math at 68.9%. Reading, however, is its weak spot, landing 3.5 points below the state and 7.4 below the district. Pullman Elementary ranks 660 of 869 (24th percentile, 1 star), and all six of its all-grade results fall below both the district and the state. It has the higher poverty rate (39.76%) yet the better staffing ratio (11.8 students per teacher vs. 18.6), and its reading climbs to 43.3% by 5th grade.
Parents should note that reading is the shared soft spot: both schools trail their district in reading. Science is measured on one grade only, so those figures reflect a single 5th grade cohort rather than a school-wide average. Both schools also slipped in statewide rank this year, and both sit at 1–2 stars within a 3-star district.
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