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Middle · Regular · Grades 5 to 8

Community School of Excellence - Middle School, Saint Paul, MN

Charter schoolCommunity School of Excellence - Middle School is a public middle school in Saint Paul, part of Community School of Excellence. It enrolled 560 students in 2024-25, with 280.0 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "Community School of Excellence - MS".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
560
Teachers (FTE)
2.0
Students per teacher
280.0
Grades
5 to 8

This school's ratio is 262.0 higher than the district figure of 18.0. The Minnesota average across schools is 15.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school280.0
District18.0
Minnesota15.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
270 Larpenteur Ave W, Saint Paul, MN 55113
County
Ramsey County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
Yes
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
270030412786
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
399
Reduced-price lunch
76
Free or reduced-price lunch
47584.8% of enrollment.
Direct certification
327Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Community School of Excellence

Middle schools elsewhere in Saint Paul

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.