Urban Academy

Schools in Urban Academy consist of just one school: Urban Academy, which serves grades PK–8 (it is listed as an elementary school) and enrolls 416 students in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The school is also the entire Urban Academy district, so school and district results in this data set are identical. It earns 1 star and ranks 361st of 458 Minnesota districts, the 21st percentile. Its state school rank has slipped from the 23rd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 22nd in 2024–2025 and the 18th in 2025–2026. About 98.8% of students are eligible for free or reduced lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is 12.2.

In 2025–2026, 30.1% of students were proficient in Math, 29.0% in Reading, and 12.2% in Science, compared with state rates of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5% — gaps of 14.8, 19.6, and 13.3 percentage points. Results also fell sharply from the prior year: Math dropped 4.58 points, Reading 9.73 points, and Science 11.13 points, while the state changed by less than 1 point in each subject. Reading is below state expectations in every tested grade. Math ranges from 15.6% in 6th grade to 58.3% in 8th grade, and Science is weakest overall, with 8th grade at just 4.2%.

There are clear bright spots. 8th grade Math is 58.3% proficient, 16.0 points above the state's 42.3%, and 5th grade Math, at 40.0%, is close to the state's 41.9%. 7th grade Reading, at 36.7%, is only 6.8 points below the state's 43.5%. Reading averages about 37.2% across grades 6–8 but only about 23.3% across grades 3–5, while Math averages roughly the same in both bands. The largest gaps are 3rd grade Math (16.7% vs. 57.9%), 3rd grade Reading (9.5% vs. 46.8%), and 8th grade Science (4.2% vs. 16.7%). Because this is a single school with small grade-level cohorts, year-to-year figures can be volatile.