Aspen Academy

Aspen Academy is the only school in this area: a K–8 school in Savage, Minnesota with 641 students that also serves as its own district. It is labeled an elementary school but serves grades K–8, and because the Aspen Academy district contains just this one school, every district-level test score is identical to the school-level score. Aspen Academy ranks 48th of 458 Minnesota districts — the 90th percentile, 4 stars — and its school-level rank history shows 4 stars in each of the past three years, with a percentile of 79 (186th of 869) in 2025–2026.

Performance is above the Minnesota average in every reported subject and grade for 2025–2026. All-grades proficiency is 57.3% in Math (state 44.9%), 58.6% in Reading (state 48.6%), and 31.8% in Science (state 25.5%). The strongest margins are in the upper elementary grades: 4th grade Math is 74.2%, a 19.0-point lead over the state; 4th grade Reading is 62.9% (+14.1); 5th grade Reading is 68.2% (+13.7); and 5th grade Math is 53.4% (+11.5). The school also widened its advantage over the state in all three subjects year over year, even as state averages slipped slightly.

The pattern to note is that middle-grade margins are much narrower — 6th grade Math is +2.2 points, 6th grade Reading +1.6, and 7th grade Math +2.8 — so the school's edge is concentrated in grades 3–5. Science is above state at both tested grades (5th grade 34.1%, +8.2; 8th grade 26.8%, +10.1) but remains the lowest subject in absolute proficiency. Reading edges out Math overall by 1.3 points, though that flips by grade. Rank dipped from the 80th percentile in 2023–2024 to 71st in 2024–2025 before recovering to 79th in 2025–2026, while holding 4 stars throughout. For context, 36.82% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch and the student-teacher ratio is 14.6; the data offers no state comparison for those figures.