Summary:
Elementary schools in the Minnesota Transitions Charter School district include four schools serving grades K-5 or K-6, with a combined enrollment of 1,280 students. The district is ranked 411 of 458 in Minnesota, placing it at the 10th percentile with 1 star, and every school in the group ranks at the 11th percentile or lower statewide.
Minnesota Connections Academy K-6 is the largest school, with 1,017 students, and posts the strongest results in the group: reading 29.5% and science 11.4%, the highest reported among these schools, plus math 14.4%. Its rank percentile, however, has slipped from 23 to 15 to 11 over three years, and its scores declined in all three subjects from 2024-25 to 2025-26. Banaadir Elementary has the highest math (16.7%) and the best single grade-level result, 3rd grade math at 31.8%, and is the only school improving steadily (rank percentile 3 to 4 to 6). Minnesota Transitions Charter Elementary is the lowest performer, with math at 2% and a 3rd-percentile rank, and several scores the state suppressed. MN Virtual Elementary School, at just 29 students, has only one year of rank data (5th percentile).
Poverty is high across all four schools, with free/reduced lunch rates of 72.07% to 97.32%, and student-teacher ratios range from 6.9 to 30.1, with Connections far above the others. Proficiency in every subject falls well below state averages: math ranges from 2% to 16.7% against the state's 44.9%, reading from 16.7% to 29.5% against 48.6%, and science from 5% to 11.4% against 25.5%. A dash means the state suppressed a figure, so it is unknown rather than zero. Reading is generally stronger than math and science here, and 5th grade math and science are particular weak points.
Thank you for your feedback!