Summary:
Bultum Academy Charter School in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, has one school, Bultum Academy, serving grades PK–8 with 249 students. Because it is the only school in the district, district-level and school-level test scores are identical, and no cross-school comparisons are possible.
In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency was below state averages: Math 25.6% vs. 44.9% (gap -19.3 pts), Reading 32.7% vs. 48.6% (-15.9 pts), and Science 11.9% vs. 25.5% (-13.6 pts). Science showed the only clear year-over-year gain, rising from 4.35% in 2024–2025 to 11.9% in 2025–2026, though still far below the state. Standout grade-level results include 8th grade Science at 18.8%, above the state’s 16.7%; 3rd grade Math at 54.3%, only 3.6 points below the state’s 57.9%; and 8th grade Reading at 43.8% vs. the state’s 50%. The sharpest weaknesses are 4th grade Math and Reading, both at 9.4% versus state averages of 55.2% and 48.8% (gaps of 45.8 and 39.4 points), 5th grade Science at 7.7% vs. 25.9%, and middle-grade Math in grades 6–8, which ranges from 16.7% to 18.8% while state averages are 39.5%–42.3%. Reading is generally stronger than Math in grades 5–8, except in 3rd grade where Math is much stronger.
Overall, Bultum Academy’s district rank is 367 of 458, placing it in the 20th percentile with 1 star. Its percentile rank has drifted from 25th in 2023–2024 (657 of 881) to 22nd in 2024–2025 (676 of 872) to 20th in 2025–2026 (694 of 869). For context, 83.13% of students receive free/reduced-price lunch (2024–2025), and the student-teacher ratio is 12.5. The school serves a PK–8 population with no other schools in the district to compare against, so parents should weigh the above grade-level patterns and the trend in Science against the consistently low Math and Reading results.
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