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St. Paul, MN public schools

Enrollment, school count, staffing and per-pupil spending for Saint Paul Public Schools — federal education data, not a star rating.

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Quick answer

Saint Paul Public Schools is the primary public district for St. Paul, MN. It enrolls 32,316 students in 99 schools with 2,240 full-time-equivalent teachers, and spends $22,154 per pupil, 28% above the $17,320 median across the metros covered here.

Students enrolled
32,316NCES Common Core of Data, 2021-22
Schools in the district
99Operating school count
Students per teacher
14.4Enrollment ÷ FTE teachers, not class size
Spending per pupil
$22,154Total current expenditure, FY2020

Who pays for schools in St. Paul

Where the district's money comes from, FY2020.

Local revenue
27.1%
$209,842,000
State revenue
57%
$441,234,000
Federal revenue
15.9%
$123,334,000

Local revenue is mostly property tax, which is why the St. Paul property tax rate and school funding move together. Of every dollar spent, about 51 cents reaches instruction — teacher salaries, benefits and classroom materials — with the rest covering transport, buildings, food service and administration.

Reading the St. Paul numbers

What the 2021-22 NCES and FY2020 Census finance numbers say about this district.

At $22,154 per pupil the district spends 28% more than the $17,320 metro median, outspending 80% of the districts covered. Instruction takes 51 cents of each dollar — $11,324 per student — with the remainder on transport, buildings, food service and administration.

Funding is split roughly evenly — 27.1% local, 57% state — so both the local tax base and the MN aid formula matter to what this district can spend. Federal dollars are an outsized 15.9% of revenue, a share that tracks concentrated student poverty (Title I) and special-education enrollment.

32,316 students across 99 schools averages 326 students per building, and the district is smaller than the typical district covered here (44,998 students). That is a small-building district; neighbourhood elementary schools dominate the count. The 14.4:1 student-to-teacher ratio is ordinary for this set of districts (median 15.2:1). It counts all FTE teachers district-wide, so actual class sizes run higher.

What this data covers

Read this before comparing districts.

Figures cover Saint Paul Public Schools (LEAID 2733840) as one unit, not any single school in St. Paul. Independently authorised charter schools, private schools and regional vocational programs are counted separately by NCES and are not in these totals. Enrollment is the 2021-22 NCES collection; dollars are the FY2020 Census F-33 survey, the latest complete national release. The two years differ, so per-pupil spending is a stable indicator rather than a live budget line.

Other St. Paul datasets on this site.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data + Census F-33, via Urban Institute Education Data · rates as published for 2021-22 / FY2020

NCES LEAID 2733840. Finance figures are Census Annual Survey of School System Finances (F-33) totals as redistributed by the Urban Institute Education Data API.