Summary:
The Hmong College Prep Academy district contains a single middle school: Hmong College Prep Academy Middle School, serving grades 6 through 8 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. With 724 students, it is a large charter middle school of roughly 240 students per grade, and about 81% of its students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Academically, the school trails both its district and the state. In 2025‑26, 12.6% of students were proficient in math, 19.2% in reading, and 6.4% in science, compared with statewide figures of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. That is a gap of 19 to 32 percentage points in every subject. It also sits below its own district in all three subjects. Its Minnesota ranking places it in the bottom 11–13th percentile, with a 1‑star rating in 2025‑26 — the first year it earned a star rather than zero.
Looking inside the school, proficiency climbs steadily from 6th to 8th grade: math rises from 8.1% to 11.1% to 17.7%, and reading from 16.6% to 18.7% to 22.0%. The widest gap is 6th-grade reading, 36.8 points below the state, making incoming 6th-grade literacy the clearest place for early support. Year over year, math gained 2.35 points and science 1.64 points while reading slipped 0.63 points — real but gradual progress. Parents should read these numbers as a school working from a very low floor with clear upward momentum in its upper grades.
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