Summary:
Elementary schools in the Duluth Public Schools Academy district in Duluth, Minnesota come down to two options: North Star Academy, which serves PK–8 with 572 students, and Raleigh Primary/Elementary Academy, which serves PK–6 with 208 students. The district is rated 343rd of 458 Minnesota districts, at the 25th percentile with 1 star, and both schools currently carry 1 star as well — North Star ranks 613th of 869 schools (29th percentile) and Raleigh ranks 659th (24th percentile).
Comparing the two, North Star is the stronger performer in math and reading. Its all-grade math is 29.8% proficient and reading 39.9%, both just above the district (29.2% and 39.5%) but below the state (44.9% and 48.6%). Raleigh's math is 27.0% and reading 38.0%. Raleigh leads in science at 20.8%, ahead of the district's 16.4%, while North Star's science is 15.5%, below the district. North Star also has the lower student-teacher ratio, 10.4 versus Raleigh's 12.4. Raleigh's brightest spot is 6th-grade reading at 58.3%, above both the district's 40.5% and the state's 53.4% — the only grade-level result at either school that exceeds the state average.
The weakest results cluster in math and early reading. Raleigh's 6th-grade math is 0.0% proficient and its 3rd-grade reading is 23.5%; North Star's 5th-grade math is 13.0%. Both schools also saw year-over-year declines in math and reading, though science moved in opposite directions: North Star fell 7.38 points while Raleigh gained 7.76 points. The two serve similar populations by free/reduced lunch (50.52% and 51.44%), but their different grade spans — and Raleigh's smaller enrollment — make some grade-level figures more volatile and harder to compare directly.
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