Summary:
Art and Science Academy is a small Minnesota district in Isanti, MN that contains just two schools — Art and Science Academy (elementary, grades K–4, 171 students) and Art & Science Academy Middle School (grades 5–8, 125 students) — for a total of 296 students across a K–8 pipeline with no high school included. The district itself ranks 366 of 458 in Minnesota, at the 20th percentile, with 1 star, and neither school exceeds the state average in any reported all-grade subject.
Because both schools trail the state, the most useful comparison is between the two. The middle school is the stronger reader: all-grade reading is 41.8%, compared with the district's 38.4% and the state's 48.6%, and 6th grade reading sits at 50%, only 3.4 points below the state — the closest grade-subject result to state performance in the list. The elementary school is the stronger math school, at 36.2% versus the district's 26.8%, though still 8.7 points below the state, with 4th grade math at 38.2%. Middle school math is the weakest area at 18.5%, which is 26.4 points below the state, and 8th grade math (7.1%) and 8th grade science (7.7%) are severe low points. The middle school also has the more favorable staffing ratio — 9.8 versus 15.5 — and slightly lower free/reduced lunch, 34.4% versus 36.84%.
Their trends also differ. The elementary school has slipped: rank percentile fell 47 → 32 → 22 and stars went 2 → 2 → 1, with math down 4.9 points and reading down 6.04 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. The middle school is stable but low, holding 1 star and a percentile between 27 and 29 for three years, though science improved 4.37 points. Note that 7th grade math and reading are suppressed and should be treated as unknown, not as zero or as weakness.
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