Minnesota Transitions Charter School

Minnesota Transitions Charter School is a Minnesota district made up of 9 schools — 4 elementary schools and 5 high schools — enrolling 5,682 students in total. Enrollment is extremely concentrated: Minnesota Connections Academy 7-12 has 3,536 students (62.2% of the district) and Minnesota Connections Academy K-6 has 1,017 (17.9%); together they account for 4,553 students, or 80.1%. High schools enroll 4,402 students (about 77.5%) and elementary schools 1,280 (about 22.5%). The district's overall profile is low: rank 411 of 458, 10th percentile, 1 star.

Banaadir Academy is the clearest bright spot: the only school above the Minnesota Transitions Charter School average in all three 2025-2026 subjects — math 12.9% vs 10%, reading 37.8% vs 28.5%, and science 13.3% vs 12.3% — with a 0.0% dropout rate and a 71.4% graduation rate, above the district's 67.1%. Minnesota Connections Academy 7-12 reports the highest graduation rate here at 76.5%, while Minnesota Connections Academy K-6 leads elementary schools in reading and science. MN Virtual Secondary School has the lowest dropout rate (1.3%) but only a 30.4% graduation rate. At the other end, Mts High School has the lowest all-grade proficiency in math (3.3%), reading (13.9%) and science (8.2%) plus a 19.5% dropout rate, Minnesota Transitions Charter Elementary has the lowest rank percentile (3), and Mts Pease Academy, with 22 students, has its 2025-2026 test scores fully suppressed.

The district trails the state in every subject: math 10% vs 44.9%, reading 28.5% vs 48.6%, and science 12.3% vs 25.5%, with math the largest gap at about 34.9 percentage points. District graduation is 67.1% versus the state's 84.9%, and the dropout rate is 5.9% versus 4.2%. Four schools have free/reduced lunch rates above 90%. A dash (—) means the state suppressed a figure; those results are unknown, not zero.