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Saint Paul, Minnesota - 1 schools
At $16,791 per pupil, City Academy ranks #96 of 504 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending (Minnesota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
City Academy operates 1 public schools serving 115 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Ramsey County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,791 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 504 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending. See how Minnesota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 0.1% local, 76.9% state, and 23.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 135:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 31.1% African American, 28.9% Asian, 14.8% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is City Academy, enrolling 135 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
City Academy accounts for 100.0% of all City Academy student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of City Academy a distant remainder — means City Academy-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
City Academy has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 85.2% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
City Academy student-counselor ratio is 135:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
City Academy has 1 school, including 1 high. Total enrollment is 115 students.
How much does City Academy spend per student?
City Academy spends $16,791 per student.
What is the demographic composition of City Academy?
City Academy students are 31.1% African American, 28.9% Asian, 14.8% Hispanic or Latino, 10.4% White, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.