Summary:
Elementary schools in this area consist of a single campus: The Journey School, a K–6 school at 775 Lexington Parkway N in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with 125 students enrolled — and it also serves as its own district, The Journey School, so there are no peer schools to compare against, only Minnesota statewide averages. The file covers MCA-III math, MCA-IV reading and MCA-IV science proficiency for 2025–2026 and 2024–2025, three years of statewide rank history, plus free/reduced-price lunch and student–teacher ratio for 2024–2025. Because roughly 18 students sit in each grade and only grades 3–6 take the MCA, one student can move a grade-level percentage by five or six points.
Against the state, results sit at the low end. In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency was 2.7% in math versus 44.9% statewide (about 6% of the state rate), 9.6% in reading versus 48.6% (about 20%), and 5% in science versus 25.5%. The school ranked 856th of 869 Minnesota schools (1st percentile) with zero stars, after 821st of 881 and 844th of 872 in the two prior years — zero stars each year. All three subjects declined year over year. Reading is consistently the stronger subject, and 6th-grade reading reached 20%, the highest figure anywhere in the file.
Two things shape how to read these numbers. First, the tested population is roughly 70 students, so the percentages describe small handfuls of children; year-over-year changes of three or four points may reflect two or three students rather than a change in instruction. Three reported zeros — 4th-grade math, 4th-grade reading and 6th-grade math — come from cohorts of about 18 students and sit within one student of neighboring grades. Second, context matters: 84% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and the student–teacher ratio is 20.8 to 1, implying roughly six teachers. Reading outperforming math is the most stable pattern in the data.
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