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Saint Paul, Minnesota - 1 schools
At $18,925 per pupil, College Preparatory Elementary ranks #53 of 504 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending (Minnesota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$18,925
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
College Preparatory Elementary operates 1 public schools serving 147 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary 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 $18,925 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 1.9% local, 74.1% state, and 24.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 21.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
College Preparatory Elementary accounts for 100.0% of all College Preparatory Elementary student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of College Preparatory Elementary a distant remainder — means College Preparatory Elementary-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
College Preparatory Elementary reports 87.1% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
College Preparatory Elementary chronic absenteeism rate is 21.1% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within College Preparatory Elementary is typically wider than the College Preparatory Elementary-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to College Preparatory Elementary's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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