Metro Schools Charter

Metro Schools Charter is a four-school charter district in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving roughly 1,535 students across two elementary schools — SET Academy Elementary and Online SET Academy — and two high schools, Metro College Prep and Metro 2 Online. All four share one campus address at 620 Olson Memorial Hwy. The district overall ranks 303 of 458 in Minnesota, at the 34th percentile with 2 stars, but individual schools differ sharply. Nearly every student is economically disadvantaged: free and reduced lunch rates run from 89.47% to 97.78%, a weighted average near 96%.

Metro College Prep has the strongest completion outcomes: an 80.3% graduation rate, above the district's 78.4% but below the state's 84.9%, and a 2.9% dropout rate that beats both. Its 11th-grade math of 58.5% far exceeds the state's 35.3%, and 8th-grade math is 47.6% versus the state's 42.3%. Middle grades lag badly, though — 7th-grade math 3.4% versus 40.3% and 7th-grade reading 10% versus 43.5%. SET Academy Elementary leads on math among reporting schools at 52.8% for all grades, above both district and state, and posted 50.57% reading in 2024–2025; its 2025–2026 reading was 34.3% and science was reported at 0%. Metro 2 Online reports the highest all-grades math at 54.5%, but a lower 73.8% graduation rate and a higher 4.7% dropout rate than the district and state.

Reading is a shared weak spot: no reporting school beat the state's 48.6% in 2025–2026. Science is weakest overall, with the district at 10.6% versus the state's 25.5%. Two schools have limited data — many Metro 2 Online values are suppressed, and Online SET Academy, the smallest at 114 students, has all listed test scores suppressed. Suppressed figures mean unknown, not poor performance. Also note that Metro 2 Online's student-teacher ratio of 186.5 is an extreme outlier tied to online staffing, so it is not comparable to Metro College Prep's 19.5 or SET Academy Elementary's 27.2.