Summary:
Schools in Minnesota Math and Science Academy serve students in Saint Paul, Minnesota across two campuses — an elementary school for grades K–5 and a secondary school for grades 6–12 — with a combined enrollment of 570 students. MMSA Elementary School enrolls 243 students, while MMSA Secondary School enrolls 327. Both schools report free/reduced-lunch rates near 99%, and the Minnesota Math and Science Academy district as a whole ranks 422 of 458 in Minnesota, in the 8th percentile with 0 stars.
The two schools are heading in different directions. MMSA Elementary improved its state rank from the 5th percentile to the 11th percentile and earned 1 star, the only star rating above zero in the district. Its all-grade math proficiency rose from 10.32% to 21%, and science went from 0% to 15%. MMSA Secondary stayed in the 6th percentile with 0 stars and saw slight declines in math and science. The schools also have opposite subject strengths: elementary outperforms the district in math (21% vs. 15.4%) and science (15% vs. 8.3%) but trails in reading (22.6% vs. 25.8%), while secondary outperforms the district in reading (27.9% vs. 25.8%) but trails in math and science. Both remain far below state averages in every subject.
One bright spot at MMSA Secondary is its 88.2% graduation rate, above the state's 84.9%, and its 2.9% dropout rate, below the state's 4.2%, despite very low test scores. Grade-level results vary widely: elementary math falls from 34.2% in 3rd grade to 9.3% in 5th grade, while elementary reading rises from 13.5% to 28.6%; secondary 8th grade reading reaches 38%, but 11th grade math is 0%. Student-teacher ratios are 17.8 at the elementary school and 21.6 at the secondary school.
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