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Loveworks Academy For Arts

Q: How many students attend Loveworks Academy For Arts?

In the 2024-25 school year, 0 students attended Loveworks Academy For Arts.

Q: What is the racial makeup of Loveworks Academy For Arts?

Students at Loveworks Academy For Arts are .

Public, Charter Grades K-8

Summary

Loveworks Academy For Arts is a public charter elementary school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving 149 students in grades K-8. The school has a predominantly African American student population, with over 93% of students identifying as such in the 2022-2023 school year. Loveworks Academy For Arts is part of the Minneapolis Public School District, which is ranked 462 out of 463 districts in Minnesota and has a 0-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Loveworks Academy For Arts consistently ranks among the lowest-performing elementary schools in Minnesota, with statewide rankings between 822 and 880 out of 881 schools over the past decade. The school's proficiency rates on the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA-III) are significantly below the state averages in math, reading, and science across all grade levels. Loveworks Academy For Arts serves a high-poverty student population, with 100% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2020-2021 school year, which is significantly higher than the state average and the nearby schools analyzed. The school has an overwhelmingly African American student population, ranging from 93.96% to 98.51% over the past three school years, in contrast to the more diverse racial compositions of the nearby schools, such as Ella Baker Elementary, Whittier Elementary, Kenwood Elementary, and Emerson Elementary.

The nearby schools generally perform better academically than Loveworks Academy For Arts, with higher proficiency rates on the MCA-III assessments and higher statewide rankings, despite also serving high-poverty student populations. This highlights the potential for racial segregation and the need to address educational equity issues within the Minneapolis public school system. Loveworks Academy For Arts has consistently ranked among the lowest-performing elementary schools in Minnesota over the past decade, with no signs of significant improvement, raising concerns about the school's ability to effectively serve its students and the need for targeted interventions and support.

Students ?

17.2

Student/teacher ratio ?

$19,608

Per pupil spending ?

95.1%

Free/discounted lunch ?

900 Mount Curve Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403-8888

(763) 522-6830

District: Loveworks Academy For Arts

Racial breakdown:

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At a glance

▬ Ranking trend: Holding steady — <1st percentile in 2014 → <1st in 2024

Strengths

✓Test scores above the Minnesota average (56% vs 46% meeting standards)

Worth a look

!Reading scores 43 pts below the Minnesota average

Students meeting standards (2023-2024) ?

This school56%

District avg56%

Minnesota avg46%

Not ranked this year

Loveworks Academy For Arts did not have enough recent test-score data to be ranked. Check the trend below for past years.

Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)

Elementary school ranking

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All Students

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Minnesota percentile	Rating
2024	1.6	880 of 881	0.1%	☆☆☆☆☆
2023	2.8	831 of 845	1.7%	☆☆☆☆☆
2022	3.3	840 of 858	2.1%	☆☆☆☆☆
2021	2.7	853 of 869	1.8%	☆☆☆☆☆
2019	1.7	863 of 870	0.8%	☆☆☆☆☆
2018	1.1	842 of 847	0.6%	☆☆☆☆☆
2017	1.3	837 of 853	1.9%	☆☆☆☆☆
2016	0.5	843 of 848	0.6%	☆☆☆☆☆
2015	0.9	832 of 840	1.0%	☆☆☆☆☆
2014	0.6	822 of 826	0.5%	☆☆☆☆☆
2013	1.1	816 of 824	1.0%	☆☆☆☆☆
2012	0.6	811 of 820	1.1%	☆☆☆☆☆
2011	9.1	758 of 814	6.9%	☆☆☆☆☆
2010	5.9	763 of 803	5.0%	☆☆☆☆☆
2008	10.4	725 of 781	7.2%	☆☆☆☆☆
2007	12.3	724 of 777	6.8%	☆☆☆☆☆

African American

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Minnesota percentile	Rating
2024	6.8	309 of 310	0.3%	☆☆☆☆☆
2023	13.1	262 of 279	6.1%	☆☆☆☆☆
2022	15.9	260 of 282	7.8%	☆☆☆☆☆
2021	14.2	215 of 227	5.3%	☆☆☆☆☆
2019	12.7	272 of 283	3.9%	☆☆☆☆☆
2018	10.4	260 of 266	2.3%	☆☆☆☆☆

Female

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Minnesota percentile	Rating
2021	2.8	769 of 783	1.8%	☆☆☆☆☆
2019	1.5	783 of 787	0.5%	☆☆☆☆☆
2018	2.5	756 of 774	2.3%	☆☆☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Minnesota percentile	Rating
2024	2.4	793 of 793	0.0%	☆☆☆☆☆
2023	6.0	751 of 774	3.0%	☆☆☆☆☆
2022	9.2	642 of 663	3.2%	☆☆☆☆☆
2021	8.1	666 of 683	2.5%	☆☆☆☆☆
2019	5.7	729 of 740	1.5%	☆☆☆☆☆
2018	3.7	723 of 728	0.7%	☆☆☆☆☆

Middle school ranking

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All Students

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Minnesota percentile	Rating
2024	4.1	538 of 545	1.3%	☆☆☆☆☆
2023	15.2	465 of 529	12.1%	★☆☆☆☆
2022	5.1	505 of 520	2.9%	☆☆☆☆☆
2021	3.7	512 of 521	1.7%	☆☆☆☆☆
2019	3.6	521 of 533	2.3%	☆☆☆☆☆
2018	1.6	509 of 518	1.7%	☆☆☆☆☆
2017	1.3	518 of 523	1.0%	☆☆☆☆☆
2016	1.4	501 of 508	1.4%	☆☆☆☆☆
2015	1.6	506 of 516	1.9%	☆☆☆☆☆
2014	3.2	469 of 490	4.3%	☆☆☆☆☆
2013	4.4	463 of 488	5.1%	☆☆☆☆☆
2012	10.4	425 of 469	9.4%	☆☆☆☆☆
2011	16.1	421 of 478	11.9%	★☆☆☆☆
2010	8.8	420 of 454	7.5%	☆☆☆☆☆
2008	23.4	356 of 409	13.0%	★☆☆☆☆
2007	7.8	383 of 403	5.0%	☆☆☆☆☆

African American

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Minnesota percentile	Rating
2024	9.4	174 of 179	2.8%	☆☆☆☆☆
2023	28.2	125 of 164	23.8%	★☆☆☆☆
2022	17.1	152 of 162	6.2%	☆☆☆☆☆
2021	13.6	133 of 141	5.7%	☆☆☆☆☆
2019	14.6	141 of 148	4.7%	☆☆☆☆☆
2018	10.5	132 of 137	3.6%	☆☆☆☆☆

Female

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Minnesota percentile	Rating
2024	6.8	453 of 474	4.4%	☆☆☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

Year	Avg score	Statewide rank	Minnesota percentile	Rating
2024	8.0	461 of 473	2.5%	☆☆☆☆☆
2023	22.6	377 of 459	17.9%	★☆☆☆☆
2022	10.9	389 of 404	3.7%	☆☆☆☆☆
2021	8.5	388 of 399	2.8%	☆☆☆☆☆
2019	8.1	407 of 415	1.9%	☆☆☆☆☆
2018	3.6	395 of 401	1.5%	☆☆☆☆☆

How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)

Elementary school

Female (2021)2nd percentile~ school

African American (2024)<1st percentile~ school

Low Socio Economic Status (2024)<1st percentile~ school

Middle school

Female (2024)4th percentile+3 vs school

African American (2024)3rd percentile~ school

Low Socio Economic Status (2024)3rd percentile~ school

By subject vs Minnesota (2023-2024) ?

Math100%+55 vs state

Reading7%-43 vs state

Science0%-40 vs state

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What people are saying

by a teacher
Friday, February 24, 2017

It physically pained me to watch these teachers try so hard for these kids, and only receive insulting swears and violent outbursts in return. And that's only when the entire class isn't outright ignoring their teacher instead. It's not just a few troublesome kids, it's the entire school. Loveworks needs to be closed and the kids transferred to a good special ed program that can help them turn their behavior and test scores around. Close Quote

by a parent
Friday, November 27, 2015

Loveworks stinks! Bad leadership = bad rankings. Pure waste of tax-payer money. The only way to do worse is to convince the kids to not take the tests at all. What a joke. April Harrison and the rest of the administration is laughing all the way to the bank because they get paid a lot (with tax-payer money) to do practically nothing. Look at the results year in and year out! Look at the teacher turn over. Anyone with any desire to truly teach and with any skill leave and with good reason. Why is it still open? How bad do these kids perform when they have to go to a real school? What a sham! Close Quote

by a teacher
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

In response to the citizen's remarks which stated that 73% of the teachers were not licensed. That is absolutely not true and further enhances the fact that you should not believe everything that you hear and that the news definitely has a way of portraying stories in a way that can easily distort reality. The truth of the matter is that during the time of the reports charter schools were permitted BY LAW to hire teachers who had teaching licenses from other states. The teachers were then given an allotted amount of time to fulfill requirements to have their licensed switched to NJ. It was reported that they were not licensed when in fact they were licensed throuh other srares. The teachers who were unfairly judged were experienced and qualified and due to the delusional antics of a disgruntled employee were thrown into a mess. Since you seem to know so much did you miss the report that stated that when the state did an audit in an attempt to find a mishandling of funds that it was found that the state actually owed the school over $250,000 from their own miscalculations? I can not speak to the changes at LoveWorks in the last 5 - 6 years but I do know as someone who worked in the inner circles of the school that it
started out on a very good, justifiable and successful track. Trust me in saying there are many facets to the story that the public has not heard. Close Quote

by a parent
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Great idea but poor management. Another contributor wrote that the kids are dysfunctional as if that's some odd occurrence. All kids if they are not disciplined and brought up correctly in the home will be dysfunctional in the class. If the administration had the intestinal fortitude to hold the parents accountable then the children would follow.
There should have been separate and distinct divisions of the school as I believe was the founders wish but not her ability with the staff she hired. The administrators should have been allowed to administer and teachers teach. Then there should have been another component of discipline in the form of a person or persons that demanded that the creeds of the school be upheld at all times. If shirts were to be tucked in then they should have been tucked in at all times. If parents couldn't govern at home, then the child should have been blocked from entering the program. Harsh for the weak at heart but eventually change would have come to fruition.
It's easy to sit back and whine and or complain on a message board but another story altogether when you're on the front line. Close Quote

by a citizen
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Good Idea - but it doesn't work well here. Scores are poor because they seem to specialize in misbehaving children from dysfunctional families and then do not have the highly skilled staff needed, especially to deal one-on-one. It did not help to have administrators who mismanaged and one this last year who beat kids with a belt.

I listed citizen because I am connected to a family of (former) attendees but am not the parent. I have been to the school a number of times with kids. Close Quote

Schools Near Loveworks Academy For Arts

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2025)				Ranking (2024)				MCA-III Math (2025)							MCA-III Reading (2025)							Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	SchoolDigger Rating (2025)	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	Rank Change from Previous Year	MCA-III Math 3rd Grade	MCA-III Math 4th Grade	MCA-III Math 5th Grade	MCA-III Math 6th Grade	MCA-III Math 7th Grade	MCA-III Math 8th Grade	MCA-III Math All Grades	MCA-III Reading 3rd Grade	MCA-III Reading 4th Grade	MCA-III Reading 5th Grade	MCA-III Reading 6th Grade	MCA-III Reading 7th Grade	MCA-III Reading 8th Grade	MCA-III Reading All Grades	Total
Loveworks Academy For Arts	Public, Charter	K-8	900 Mount Curve Avenue	Minneapolis	55403	Hennepin County	Loveworks Academy For Arts	Yes	No	No	Yes	(763) 522-6830	0	9	17.2		0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()								(n/a)															$19,608
Emerson Elementary	Public, Magnet	PK, KG-5	1421 Spruce Place	Minneapolis	55403	Hennepin County	Minneapolis Public School District	No	Yes	No	Yes	(612) 668-3610	491	43	11.3	57.4%	121 (24.6%)	28 (5.7%)	306 (62.3%)	2 (0.4%)	6 (1.2%)	0 (0.0%)	28 (5.7%)	18.1	727^th of 872 public elementary schools	16.6%		20.8	719^th of 881 public elementary schools	18.4%	8	32.6	42.4	16.3				30.7	22.1	28.2	35.0				28.3	$14,384
Ella Baker Elementary	Public, Magnet	PK, KG-8	1200 W 26th St	Minneapolis	55405	Hennepin County	Minneapolis Public School District	No	Yes	No	Yes	(612) 668-2720	512	55	9.3	82.6%	51 (10.0%)	172 (33.6%)	205 (40.0%)	13 (2.5%)	27 (5.3%)	0 (0.0%)	44 (8.6%)	4.2	846^th of 872 public elementary schools	3.0%		4.8	844^th of 881 public elementary schools	4.2%	2	12.9	23.1	8.5	3.3	9.5	4.7	9.6	7.9	15.4	16.7	13.1	20.0	7.7	13.2	$19,075
Whittier Elementary	Public	PK, KG-5	315 West 26th St	Minneapolis	55404	Hennepin County	Minneapolis Public School District	No	No	No	Yes	(612) 668-4170	491	43	11.3	85.3%	61 (12.4%)	147 (29.9%)	218 (44.4%)	11 (2.2%)	10 (2.0%)	0 (0.0%)	44 (9.0%)	3.9	850^th of 872 public elementary schools	2.5%		3.9	856^th of 881 public elementary schools	2.8%	6	9.0	8.2	10.3				9.1	10.1	11.9	21.8				14.3	$15,943
Kenwood Elementary	Public	K-5	2013 Penn Ave S	Minneapolis	55405	Hennepin County	Minneapolis Public School District	No	No	No	No	(612) 668-2760	388	28	13.7	52.3%	166 (42.8%)	85 (21.9%)	63 (16.2%)	20 (5.2%)	2 (0.5%)	0 (0.0%)	52 (13.4%)	38	585^th of 872 public elementary schools	32.9%		49.8	494^th of 881 public elementary schools	43.9%	91	44.3	55.6	36.0				45.4	35.6	43.6	34.0				37.6	$12,011
SET Academy Elementary	Public, Charter	K-5	620 Olson Memorial Hwy	Minneapolis	55411	Hennepin County	Metro Schools Charter	Yes	No	No	No	(612) 722-2555	463	17	27.2	96.5%	0 (0.0%)	452 (97.6%)	9 (1.9%)	2 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	55.9	416^th of 872 public elementary schools	52.3%		55.3	433^rd of 881 public elementary schools	50.9%	17	58.8	46.2	45.8				50.0	52.6	50.9	48.4				50.6
Online SET Academy	Public, Virtual, Charter	K-5	620 Olson Memorial Hwy	Minneapolis	55411	Hennepin County	Metro Schools Charter	Yes	(n/a)	Yes	(n/a)	(612) 722-2555	114	0		89.5%	0 (0.0%)	114 (100.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)								(n/a)
Wakanda Virtual Academy	Public, Virtual, Charter	K-8	1300 Olson Memorial Hwy	Minneapolis	55411	Hennepin County	Best Academy	Yes	(n/a)	Yes	(n/a)	(612) 876-4105	282	9	31.3	87.6%	0 (0.0%)	278 (98.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (0.7%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (0.7%)	22.1	698^th of 872 public elementary schools	20.0%		8.5	806^th of 881 public elementary schools	8.5%	108	32.4	30.3	29.3	3.7	15.2	17.9	22.6	32.4	15.2	46.3	42.9	33.3	46.4	36.0
Best Academy	Public, Charter	K-8	1300 Olson Memorial Hwy	Minneapolis	55411	Hennepin County	Best Academy	Yes	No	No	Yes	(612) 381-9743	508	33	15.3	92.5%	0 (0.0%)	474 (93.3%)	12 (2.4%)	1 (0.2%)	5 (1.0%)	0 (0.0%)	16 (3.1%)	9.3	797^th of 872 public elementary schools	8.6%		17.5	742^nd of 881 public elementary schools	15.8%	55	23.8	21.3	12.5	10.3	10.2	32.5	18.5	19.1	17.4	34.7	25.0	19.6	41.5	25.5	$18,702
Mastery School	Public, Charter	K-5	1301 7th Ave N	Minneapolis	55411	Hennepin County	Best Academy	Yes	No	No	No	(612) 876-4105	0				0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()								(n/a)

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