Summary:
STRIDE Academy Elementary is the only elementary school in the STRIDE Academy district in Minnesota, serving grades K–4 to 569 students at 3241 Oakham Ln in Saint Cloud. Because it is the sole school, there is no peer school to compare it with inside the district; the useful comparisons are against district and state averages. The student body has very high economic need, with 83.66% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, alongside a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 10.2 students per teacher that same year.
Every reported proficiency rate is below the state's. In 2025–2026, all-grades math was 25.8% versus 44.9% statewide, and all-grades reading was 15.5% versus 48.6%. Third-grade math was the strongest result at 35.2%, still 22.7 points under the state, while fourth-grade math at 16.5% showed the largest gap, 38.7 points below the state's 55.2%. Reading was consistently low across grades, at 16.7% in 3rd grade and 14.3% in 4th grade. Math improved year over year, rising from 16.46% in 2024–2025 to 25.8%, but reading fell from 26.23% to 15.5%. Science in 2024–2025 was 6.92% against a state rate of 26.15%, the lowest figure in the data. The school outperformed the district in 2025–2026 math (25.8% vs. 13.9%) but trailed it in reading (15.5% vs. 20.9%).
Rankings reflect the overall picture. After reaching rank 740 out of 872, the 15th percentile with 1 star, in 2024–2025, the school fell to 811 out of 869, the 7th percentile with 0 stars, in 2025–2026. The district itself ranked 439 out of 458, in the 4th percentile with 0 stars.
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