Summary:
Excell Academy Charter is the only school in the Excell Academy Charter district, a PK–8 school in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota serving 548 students. It is classified as an elementary school but covers grades PK through 8. It serves a high-need population: 87.04% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio was 15.8. Statewide, the school ranks 816 of 869 in 2025–2026 — the 6th percentile — with a 0-star rating. The district ranks 429 of 458 in Minnesota, also 0 stars.
Test scores trail Minnesota averages in every subject and grade. In 2025–2026 all-grades proficiency, Math was 13.3% versus 44.9% statewide, Reading 19.5% versus 48.6%, and Science 8.4% versus 25.5%. Grade-level results show the same pattern. Math peaks in 3rd grade at 31.7%, then drops to 3.9% in 5th, 3.8% in 6th, and 4.0% in 7th before recovering to 11.6% in 8th. Reading ranges from 16.7% in 3rd grade to 25.0% in 8th. Science is 5.9% in 5th grade and 11.4% in 8th.
The relative strengths are 3rd grade Math, 8th grade Reading, and especially 8th grade Science, whose 11.4% is only 5.3 points below the state's 16.7% — the smallest gap in the data. The weakest areas are 5th, 6th, and 7th grade Math, with the largest gap at 5th grade Math (3.9% versus 41.9%, a 38.0-point difference). Year over year, all-grades Math rose from 12.45% to 13.3%, Science improved from 4.95% to 8.4%, and Reading was essentially flat, from 19.64% to 19.5%. Rank history shows slight movement — 841 of 881 in 2023–2024, 830 of 872 in 2024–2025, and 816 of 869 in 2025–2026 — but the school remains in the bottom 6% of ranked Minnesota schools with 0 stars each year.
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