Elementary Schools in Spero Academy

The Spero Academy district in Minnesota contains just two elementary schools — Spero Academy in Minneapolis and Spero Academy Brooklyn Park in Brooklyn Park — both serving grades K–6 with a combined enrollment of 275 students.

Both schools sit in a district ranked 416 of 458 in Minnesota, or the 9th percentile with 0 stars, and both perform well below the state in math and reading. Spero Academy in Minneapolis stands out for science, where all-grades proficiency is 23.5% — above the district's 18.2% and close to the state's 25.5% — and 5th grade science is 23.5% versus 12.5% at Brooklyn Park. It also has the lower student–teacher ratio (5.2 vs. 7.4), the lower free/reduced-lunch rate (31.08% vs. 38.58%), and the stronger rank history, including 709 of 881 schools (20th percentile, 1 star) in 2023–2024 versus 826 of 881 (6th percentile, 0 stars) for Brooklyn Park.

Spero Academy Brooklyn Park is the relative standout in reading, with all-grades proficiency of 27.5% against Minneapolis's 23.9% and the district's 25.7%, and it leads in grades 4–6 reading (25%, 31.3%, and 33.3% respectively). It also posts stronger 4th and 6th grade math (15% and 20% vs. 5.9% and 11.1%) and recorded the largest one-year reading gain, rising 14.54 percentage points from 12.96% to 27.5%. The shared weakness is math: both schools sit around 14–15% proficiency while the state is at 44.9%.