Kaleidoscope Charter School

Kaleidoscope Charter School is a Minnesota district in Otsego serving about 493 students across three schools that cover consecutive grade bands: Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary School (K–5, 300 students), Kaleidoscope Middle School (6–8, 117 students), and Kaleidoscope Charter High School (9–12, 76 students).

The three schools look very different from one another despite sharing a district. The high school is the strongest, ranked 103 of 473 — 78th percentile with 4 stars. Its science proficiency is 42.9%, well above the district's 22.4% and the state's 25.5%, its reading is 47.6%, close to the state's 48.6%, and it reports a 0.0% dropout rate against the state's 4.2%. The middle school ranks 219 of 546 — 60th percentile, 3 stars — and beats the state at every tested reading grade: 6th 57.1%, 7th 47.8%, 8th 56.8%, plus 8th grade science at 29.7% vs. the state's 16.7%. The elementary school is the largest with 300 students but the lowest ranked: 633 of 869, 27th percentile, 1 star. It trails the state in math (40.3% vs. 44.9%), reading (38.4% vs. 48.6%), and science (8.2% vs. 25.5%).

Math is the clearest district-wide weakness, at 32.5% against the state's 44.9%. Middle school math is 24%, with 6th and 7th grade math at 9.5% and 19.6% against state rates near 40%. Science swings widely, from 8.2% at the elementary school to 42.9% at the high school. High school math is suppressed by the state, so it cannot be evaluated from these data. One caveat: the middle school's reported student-teacher ratio of 93.6 is an extreme outlier next to the other two schools and should be treated cautiously.