Summary:
Yinghua Academy is the single school in this area — a Minneapolis school at 1616 Buchanan St NE serving 851 students in grades K–8. It is classified as an elementary school in state data, yet it enrolls middle-grade students and reports test results through 8th grade, so it functions as a full K–8 campus. The school is also its own district, Yinghua Academy, which means every district-level figure reported for this area is identical to the school's own results.
Academically, the school performs well above Minnesota averages in all three tested subjects. In 2025-2026, all-grade Math proficiency was 88.7% versus 44.9% statewide, Reading was 76.9% versus 48.6%, and Science was 59.2% versus 25.5%. Math is the strongest subject in absolute terms, and every grade from 3rd through 8th exceeds the state by at least 36.1 percentage points — 4th grade is highest at 93.6%, and even the lowest, 6th grade at 75.6%, is far above the state's 39.5%. Reading proficiency climbs steadily from 64.5% in 3rd grade to 84.9% in 6th, then holds in the low 80s in 7th and 8th. Science is especially strong in 8th grade, more than 39 points above the state.
The school ranks 11th of 869 Minnesota schools in 2025-2026 — the top 1.3% — improving from the prior two years, when it sat around the top 3.5–3.8% of schools. It has earned 5 stars in each of the three reported years and ranks 2nd of 458 districts statewide, at the 100th percentile. All-grade Science also rose about 16.9 percentage points year over year, from 42.26% to 59.2%; Math and Reading improved as well. For context, 16.57% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024-2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 13.4.
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