Life Prep

Schools in the Life Prep area include one elementary school, LIFE Prep, serving PK–6 in Saint Paul, MN, with 134 students, and the Life Prep district data mirrors the school’s results rather than offering a separate comparison benchmark.

Because LIFE Prep is the only school here, there are no other local schools to compare it with; the state is the most useful benchmark. Its standout trait is persistent bottom-percentile performance: district rank 436th of 458, 5th percentile, 0 stars. School rank history is consistently near the bottom: 2023–24 was 809th of 881 (8th percentile, 0 stars), 2024–25 was 792nd of 872 (9th percentile, 0 stars), and 2025–26 was 810th of 869 (7th percentile, 0 stars). Reading is the relative bright spot: all-grades Reading is 22.0% proficient vs. the state’s 48.6%, and 4th grade Reading is 33.3%—the highest single subject/grade result—though still 15.5 points below the state. Math and Science are especially low: all-grades Math is 8.9% vs. 44.9%, and all-grades Science is 5.6% vs. 25.5%. The largest single gap is 3rd grade Math, 50.2 points below the state. 5th grade is a pronounced weak point: Math 5.3%, Reading 10.0%, and Science 5.6%.

Context matters: enrollment is 134, the 2024–25 free/reduced lunch rate is 89.55%, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.4. Small grade cohorts mean percentages can swing with one or two students, but the consistency of low results across subjects, grades, and years points to broader systemic challenges. Year over year, Math improved slightly to 8.9% and the gap narrowed by 1.52 points; Reading dipped to 22.0% but the gap narrowed by 0.60 points; Science fell to 5.6% and the gap widened by 0.89 points. No test-score values in this extract are suppressed, so there are no privacy-suppressed unknowns in the provided test data.