Minneapolis Public Schools
| Minneapolis Public Schools | |
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Map of Minneapolis
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Minneapolis Minnesota United States |
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| Coordinates | 44°59′58″N 93°17′48″W / 44.99944°N 93.29667°WCoordinates: 44°59′58″N 93°17′48″W / 44.99944°N 93.29667°W |
| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Established | 1878 |
| Superintendent | Michael Goar (Interim) |
| Budget | $654,453,751 |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 34,570 (total) |
| Teachers | 2375 |
| Staff | 3122 |
| Athletic conference | Minneapolis City Conference |
| Other information | |
| Notes | 2010–2011 Fact Sheet |
| Website | www |
Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) or Special School District Number 1 is a school district that covers all of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Minneapolis Public Schools enroll 36,370 students in public primary and secondary schools. The district administers about one hundred public schools including forty-five elementary schools, seven middle schools, seven high schools, eight special education schools, eight alternative schools, nineteen contract alternative schools and five charter schools. With authority granted by the state legislature, the school board makes policy, selects the superintendent, and oversees the district's budget, curriculum, personnel, and facilities. Students speak ninety different languages at home and most school communications are printed in English, Hmong, Spanish, and Somali.
In the past decade enrollment in Minneapolis Public Schools has decreased significantly. In the 2001-2002 school year the district's enrollment was 46,256 students. In the 2002–2003 school year Minneapolis Public School's 46,037 students were enough to be the 98th largest school district in the United States in terms of enrollment. In the following school year (2003–2004) alone, the district's enrollment had decreased 5% to just over 43,000 students. At that time the district was predicted to lose 10,000 more students over the next five years if the then current trend continued. Some of the decline has been from the result of a smaller school-age population.
In the 2007–2008 school year, 10,000 eligible school children in Minneapolis choose to attend other schools such as, in suburban school districts, at private schools or at charter schools. The number of students enrolled in Minneapolis Public Schools is expected to drop under 30,000 students from 2007–2011. As a result of "a severe learning gap, continued enrollment decreases and financial shortfalls" the district has at times proposed closing a number of schools, the majority in North Minneapolis. The district has space for 50,000 students.
A large portion of students that would normally attend schools in Minneapolis instead attend schools in the western suburbs. In 2000 Minneapolis branch of the NAACP sued alleging that students were being denied an adequate education. As a result, a program called "The Choice is Yours" was created that gave low-income students support in attending suburban schools. Around 2,000 students, the majority being from north Minneapolis, do so, attending other school districts in the West Metro Education Program. Several studies have revealed that students who remain in Minneapolis Public Schools have better test scores than those that are bused to schools in the suburbs.
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