Friendship Academy of the Arts

There is one school in the Friendship Academy of the Arts district: Friendship Academy of the Arts, a K–8 school in Minneapolis, Minnesota serving 167 students. Although the state labels it an Elementary school, it enrolls students from kindergarten through 8th grade, and because it is the only school in its district, district-level figures and school-level figures are identical. The student body is largely low-income — 80.84% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025 — and the student-teacher ratio is high at 29.5.

Friendship Academy of the Arts ranks near the bottom of Minnesota schools, and has done so consistently. Its district rank is 432 of 458 (6th percentile, 0 stars), and its 2025–2026 school rank is 809 of 869 (7th percentile, 0 stars). Rank history is stable near the bottom: 8th percentile in 2023–2024, 6th in 2024–2025, and 7th in 2025–2026. Proficiency trails the state in every subject in 2025–2026: Math 13.2% versus 44.9% statewide, Reading 17.9% versus 48.6%, and Science 10% versus 25.5%. In 2024–2025 the same pattern held — Math 11.63% versus 45.21%, Reading 20.15% versus 49.59%, and Science 6.9% versus 26.15%.

Grade-level results follow the same trend. The closest result to the state is 8th grade Science at 11.8%, only 4.9 percentage points below the state's 16.7%. Reading is strongest in 4th grade (28%) and 5th grade (29.2%), and weakest in 3rd grade (8.7%), 7th grade (10.5%), and 8th grade (11.8%). Math is the weakest subject overall, with 6th grade at 6.7% and 7th grade at 5.9% proficient. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Math improved by 1.57 percentage points and Science by 3.1 points, while Reading declined by 2.25 points.