Summary:
There is one middle school in the Hope Community Academy district in Minnesota: HOPE Community Academy Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 221 students in Saint Paul. It is a high-need school, with 90.05% of students qualifying for free/reduced-price lunch in 2024–25. The district ranks 406 of 458 Minnesota schools, at the 11th percentile with 1 star.
Ranking history shows three straight years in the bottom decile: the school ranked at the 8th–9th percentile in 2023–24 through 2025–26 and earned 0 stars each year. In 2025–26, all-grade proficiency was 5.3% in math, 17.7% in reading, and 4.1% in science. Those results trail the district and are far below the state: math 44.9%, reading 48.6%, and science 25.5%. By grade, 8th grade reading was the relative bright spot at 32.9%, the highest result for the school, though still 17.1 points below the state. The weakest grade was 7th, with 2.6% in math and 5.1% in reading.
Year over year, math fell from 11.01% to 5.3% and science fell from 9.68% to 4.1%, while reading improved slightly from 15.98% to 17.7%. In 2024–25, the school exceeded the district in science (9.68% vs. 7.84%), the only all-grade subject where it did so, but it trailed the district in math and reading that year. The student/teacher ratio is 17.2:1, which is not extreme, so staffing ratios alone do not explain the low proficiency levels. No test scores were suppressed, and no bound or range values appear. Overall, the school is a high-poverty, bottom-decile middle school with low proficiency across subjects and grades; its best signals are 8th grade reading and the 2024–25 science comparison, but both remain below state benchmarks.
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