Summary:
KIPP North Star Academy is the single middle school serving grades 5-8 in the KIPP Minnesota Charter School district in Minneapolis, Minnesota, enrolling 107 students with a student-teacher ratio of 15.5 and a free/reduced-lunch rate of 94.39% in 2024-2025. Because it is the only middle school in the district, its results define the district's middle-level performance, and its district ranks 450 of 458 in Minnesota, at the 2nd percentile with 0 stars.
Test-score results for 2025-2026 show proficiency well below Minnesota averages in every subject. All-grade math is 4% at the school versus 44.9% statewide; reading is 13.9% versus 48.6%; and science is 2.1% versus 25.5%. Reading is the relative strength, peaking at 20.7% in 6th grade, though that is still far under the state's 6th grade reading mark. Math reaches 10% in 7th grade, while 8th grade math and 5th grade science are both at 0%. The largest gap versus the state is 5th grade reading, 8.3% compared with 54.5%; the smallest is 8th grade science, 3.8% versus 16.7%. School rank history has held steady in the bottom tier: 520 of 546 in 2025-2026, 495 of 519 in 2024-2025, and 520 of 545 in 2023-2024, all at the 5th percentile with 0 stars.
Year-over-year results are mixed rather than clearly improving. Math rose from 0.97% in 2024-2025 to 4%, but from an extremely low base, while reading fell from 18.81% to 13.9% and science from 6.67% to 2.1%; the simple average across the three subjects slipped from roughly 8.8% to 6.7%. Grade-level school figures match district figures exactly, so district results largely reflect this one school. With only 107 students, percentages can shift substantially from small changes in the number of proficient students.
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