Summary:
New Discoveries Montessori Academy is the sole elementary school in the data set, serving grades PK-8 in Hutchinson, Minnesota. With 223 students enrolled, the school has consistently performed below the state average on standardized tests, ranking 670 out of 872 Minnesota elementary schools for the 2024-2025 school year with a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
The school's proficiency rates in math and reading on the MCA-III assessments range from 20% to 36.36% and 23.81% to 56.52% respectively, compared to the state averages of 40.1% to 57.93% in math and 45.97% to 57.09% in reading. Additionally, the school's science proficiency rate of 36% in 2023-2024 is lower than the state average of 39.56%. These low academic performance metrics suggest that New Discoveries Montessori Academy may be struggling to provide a high-quality education to its students.
The school's high percentage of free and reduced-price lunch recipients, at 61.43% in 2023-2024, indicates that the student population faces significant socioeconomic challenges, which could be a contributing factor to the school's low academic performance. However, the school's low student-teacher ratio of 11.4 suggests that students may benefit from more individualized attention and support, though this does not appear to be translating into higher academic achievement based on the test score data.
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