Summary:
Saint Joseph, Minnesota has just one school in this data set: Kennedy Community School, a PK–8 school at 1300 Jade Rd with 582 students. Although the area summary classifies it as elementary, it actually serves grades PK–8, so it functions as both the city's elementary and middle school — there are no separate middle, high, or alternative schools listed here. About 49.66% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the student/teacher ratio is 12.6. Because Kennedy is the only school in the city, city-level averages would simply equal its own figures, so the most useful comparisons are against its district and the state.
Kennedy is a clear outperformer within the St. Cloud Public School District, beating district averages in every all-grade subject in both available years. In 2025–2026, all-grade reading was 45.4 versus the district's 31.0 (+14.4 points), math was 37.5 versus 24.9 (+12.6), and science was 17.1 versus 14.8. In 2024–2025, science stood at 26.23 versus the district's 15.68. Despite that, Kennedy trails the state in 2025–2026 by 7.4 points in math, 3.2 in reading, and 8.4 in science. Its school rank is 539 of 869 (38th percentile, 2 stars), while the district ranks 363 of 458 (21st percentile, 1 star).
The strongest bright spot is 8th grade: reading proficiency of 58.1% is 8.1 points above the state and 24.6 points above the district, and math at 45.9% is 3.6 points above the state and 24.0 above the district. Third and fourth grade math are both above 50% and well above district averages. Weaknesses concentrate in 5th grade math, where only 11.3% are proficient — 30.6 points below the state's 41.9% — and in 7th grade, where reading (31.3%) and math (28.4%) fall 12.2 and 11.9 points below state averages. Science also declined from 26.23 to 17.1 year over year, and the school's percentile rank has not returned to its 2023–2024 level of 44.
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