Success Academy

Success Academy is a small Minnesota district with four schools — two elementary schools serving K–5 and two middle schools serving grades 6–8, with no high school — split between St. Cloud and Bloomington and enrolling 366 students in total. The district ranks 413 of 458 in Minnesota, placing it in the 10th percentile with 1 star, and poverty is universal here: every school has free/reduced lunch above 90%, ranging from 90.48% to 98.57%.

Bloomington schools generally outperform St. Cloud schools. Success Academy Bloomington Elementary is the brightest spot: 3rd grade math was 68.8% and 3rd grade reading 58.8% — the only grade-level results in this data set above state averages — and its rank rose from the 12th to the 21st percentile. Success Academy Bloomington Middle posts the district's highest reading score (37.9%) and highest rank percentile (25th, 408 of 546), though its math is 13.6%, below the district's 17.8%. By contrast, Success Academy St. Cloud Elementary has declined to 834 of 869 (4th percentile, 0 stars), with all-grade math 13.3%, reading 15.0%, and science 0%. Success Academy St. Cloud - Middle is last in the group at 544 of 546 (0th percentile, 0 stars), with math and reading both 9.7% and 7th grade math and reading both 0%.

Science is weak district-wide: all-grade science was 0% at both elementary schools, and 5th grade science was 0% at both elementaries and at the district level. Only Bloomington Middle reported all-grade science above the district average, at 13.0%, still below the state's 25.5%. Class sizes vary widely, from 10.8 to 18.0 students per teacher, and with middle-school enrollments as small as 46 and 63 students, some figures are suppressed ("—") by the state — those results are unknown, not zero.