Summary:
STEP Academy has just one middle school in this data set, STEP Academy 6-12 - Burnsville, located at 14450 Burnhaven Dr in Burnsville, Minnesota. It serves grades 6–10 with an enrollment of 96 students. Because it is the only middle school in the district, there is no within-district peer to compare against; the useful comparisons are this school versus its district and versus Minnesota as a whole. The STEP Academy district ranks 368 of 458 in Minnesota, placing it in the 20th percentile with 1 star.
Academically, Math is the clearest weakness. All-grade Math proficiency is 9.0%, compared with 44.9% statewide — a gap of nearly 36 percentage points — and every grade level trails the state badly: 6th grade at 4.2%, 7th grade at 9.1%, and 8th grade at 14.3%. Reading is comparatively stronger at 35.3%, essentially matching the district's 35.1% but still 13.3 points below the state's 48.6%. The best single result is 7th-grade Reading at 40.9%, only 2.6 points below the state and well above the district's 31.3%, while 10th-grade Reading is a weak spot at 22.2%. Science sits at 7.9%, less than one-third of the state's 25.5%; 8th-grade Science is 0% proficient and End-of-Course Science is 17.6%.
Several contextual factors matter. The school reports 96.88% free/reduced-price lunch, meaning nearly all students are economically disadvantaged, and a high student-teacher ratio of 24.7. With only 96 students across grades 6–10, grade-level cohorts are small, so a change of one or two students can move a percentage substantially and year-to-year comparisons are less stable. The school has held a 1-star rating for three years while its percentile rank slipped from 28 to 24 to 20. Math fell 7.87 points year over year, a much steeper drop than the district or state saw; Reading also declined more than either; Science edged up from 6.45% to 7.9% while the district and state declined, though it remains very low overall.
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