Summary:
Sejong Academy of Minnesota is a two-school district in Maplewood, Minnesota, with Sejong Academy Lower School serving PK–5 and Sejong Academy Upper School serving grades 6–12, together enrolling 332 students, with both schools serving a high-poverty population of about 85% free/reduced lunch.
The Lower School is the steadier of the two but remains low-ranked: it was in the 21st–24th percentile with 1 star across 2023–2024, 2024–2025, and 2025–2026, and in 2025–2026 ranked 661st of 869. Its relative strength is math, where all-grades proficiency was 41.5%—above the district's 29.0% but below the state's 44.9%. Reading is its biggest weakness at 26.5% versus the state's 48.6%, and science was 22.7%. The Upper School is far more volatile: it ranked in the 94th percentile with 5 stars in 2023–2024, fell to the 31st percentile with 2 stars in 2024–2025, then rebounded to the 52nd percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026 (225th of 473). Its 2025–2026 all-grades scores were 18.8% in math, 28.1% in reading, and 19.0% in science, though 11th grade math stood out at 38.9%, above the state's 35.3%. The Upper School also reported a 93.7% graduation rate and 0.0% dropout rate in 2023–2024, but 2024–2025 school-level graduation/dropout figures are not shown in this extract.
For parents, the clearest academic priorities are Lower School reading and Upper School middle-grade math and reading. Lower reading gaps are large by grade: 3rd grade was 20.0% versus the state's 46.8%, and 4th grade was 25.8% versus 48.8%. Upper School middle-grade math is very low: 6th grade 13.3% versus the state's 39.5%, 7th grade 7.4% versus 40.3%, and 8th grade 23.1%. Upper School reading also dropped from 40.91% in 2024–2025 to 28.1% in 2025–2026. The district overall is ranked 328th of 458, in the 28th percentile with 1 star. With 136 students in grades 6–12 at the Upper School and 196 in PK–5 at the Lower School, grade-level results can swing widely, so small cohorts should be interpreted with caution. The student–teacher ratio also differs sharply: 11.6 at the Lower School and 22.7 at the Upper School.
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