Summary:
Nova Classical Academy is home to one high school: Nova Classical Academy Upper School, a grades 6–12 school with 556 students in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Because it is the only high school in this area, there are no local high school peers to compare it against directly; the most useful comparisons are between the school, its Nova Classical Academy district, and the state of Minnesota.
That single school is one of the strongest in the state. Nova Classical Academy Upper School earned 5 stars in each of the last three school years and ranked #2 in Minnesota in both 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 (100th percentile), then #4 out of 473 ranked schools in 2025–2026 (99th percentile). Its district is rated 5 stars and ranks #8 of 458 districts statewide, in the 98th percentile. Outcomes back up the rankings: a 92.9% graduation rate in 2024–2025, 8.0 percentage points above the state's 84.9%, and a 0.0% dropout rate versus the state's 4.2%. The district matches the school exactly on both measures.
Test proficiency is also well above state averages. In 2025–2026, 71.7% of students met standards in math, 75.0% in reading, and 50.7% in science, compared with 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5% statewide — gaps of roughly 25 to 27 percentage points. Reading is a relative strength (82.1% in 8th grade, the highest reported result), while science is the lowest internally, though 8th grade science (38.5%) still more than doubles the state's 16.7%. Proficiency dipped slightly from 2024–2025 in all three subjects, alongside state declines and a change in the reading exam format that makes that year-over-year comparison imperfect. The school also enrolls 20.86% free/reduced-lunch students with a 15.2 student/teacher ratio.
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