Summary:
ZIP code 55116 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is home to six elementary schools serving a combined 2,303 students in grades PK through 8 — four operated by Saint Paul Public Schools and two that make up their own single-school charter districts, Urban Academy and St. Paul School of Northern Lights. Enrollment at each school is fairly even, ranging from 212 to 445 students.
The academic spread within this one ZIP code is enormous. Jie Ming Mandarin Immersion Academy ranks 13th of 869 elementary schools statewide (99th percentile, 5 stars), with 88.4% math and 76.0% reading proficiency, and its 5th-grade math reaches 94.2%. Horace Mann School ranks 44th (95th percentile, 5 stars) with 70.7% math and 71.6% reading. Together they enroll 876 students, about 38% of the area's elementary students. At the other end, Highland Park Elementary ranks 788th of 869 (9th percentile) at 20.1% math and 24.0% reading — the only 0-star school here — while Urban Academy ranks 715th with the lowest overall proficiency profile.
EXPO for Excellence Elementary School is the clear improver, climbing from 590 to 532 to 504 in state rank, and has the lowest student-teacher ratio (10.9). St. Paul School of Northern Lights is decidedly reading-strong and math-weak (42.7% vs. 23.6%). Science is the shared soft spot: even Jie Ming's 5th-grade science (52.6%) trails its own math by a wide margin. Reading and science declined at five of six schools, and class size does not track results here — the two top schools have the two largest student-teacher ratios.
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