Columbia Academy

Public 6-8

 900 49th Ave NE
       Columbia Heights, MN  55421-1710


(763) 528-4701

District: Columbia Heights Public School District

SchoolDigger Rank:
487th of 535 Minnesota Middle Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures:  $12,741 Help


Students who attend Columbia Academy usually attend:

High:    Columbia Heights Senior High

Feeder schools for Columbia Academy:

Elementary:    Highland Elementary
    North Park School for Innovation
    Valley View Elementary

Student/teacher ratio:  17.3 Help
Number of students:  664

Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
43.8%
African American:
30.1%
White:
14.6%
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Free/discounted lunch recipients:  83.9% Help


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Compare Details Columbia Academy ranks worse than 91% of middle schools in Minnesota. (See more...)
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Student Body
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Compare Details Student population at Columbia Academy is diverse. Racial makeup is: Hispanic (43.8%), African American (30.1%), White (14.6%). (See more...)
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Compare Details The average total spent per student at Columbia Academy is $12,741.
Schooldigger 2023 Rankings:

Columbia Academy:

SchoolDigger ranks Columbia Academy 487th of 535 Minnesota public middle schools. (See Columbia Academy in the ranking list.)

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Columbia Heights Public School District:

SchoolDigger ranks Columbia Heights Public School District 409th of 448 Minnesota school districts. (See district ranking list.)


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Rank History for Columbia Academy

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Rank History for all students at Columbia Academy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools MN State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2004 24.10 326th 387 15.8%
2005 25.11 336th 396 15.2%
2006 28.34 338th 406 16.7%
2007 22.76 353rd 403 12.4%
2008 26.13 352nd 409 13.9%
2009 16.03 209th 230 9.1%
2010 18.25 398th 454 12.3%
2011 14.17 425th 478 11.1%
2012 17.38 410th 469 12.6%
2013 16.73 422nd 488 13.5%
2014 17.02 426th 490 13.1%
2015 21.22 426th 516 17.4%
2016 17.11 434th 508 14.6%
2017 20.03 438th 523 16.3%
2018 20.50 433rd 518 16.4%
2019 17.93 452nd 533 15.2%
2021 10.83 474th 521 9.0%
2022 15.07 459th 520 11.7%
2023 10.66 482nd 529 8.9%
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Rank History for Multi-racial students at Columbia Academy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools MN State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 15.75 103rd 114 9.6%
2019 13.01 113th 120 5.8%
2022 18.69 117th 131 10.7%
2023 5.97 105th 107 1.9%
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Rank History for English Language Learner students at Columbia Academy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools MN State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 42.00 50th 109 54.1%
2019 45.35 58th 120 51.7%
2021 34.91 71st 102 30.4%
2022 34.24 88th 130 32.3%
2023 34.09 101st 133 24.1%
See the entire list of Best Minnesota Middle Schools for English Language Learner Students!

Rank History for Special Education students at Columbia Academy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools MN State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 21.19 221st 253 12.6%
2019 37.63 182nd 282 35.5%
2021 15.54 241st 260 7.3%
2022 32.97 208th 288 27.8%
2023 43.07 169th 298 43.3%
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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Columbia Academy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools MN State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 29.17 314th 401 21.7%
2019 27.20 328th 415 21.0%
2021 21.22 348th 399 12.8%
2022 24.24 333rd 404 17.6%
2023 15.12 417th 459 9.2%
See the entire list of Best Minnesota Middle Schools for Low Socio Economic Status Students!

Rank History for Homeless students at Columbia Academy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools MN State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 65.17 9th 25 64.0%
2019 64.75 4th 19 78.9%
2023 39.18 15th 20 25.0%
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Rank History for Female students at Columbia Academy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools MN State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 17.49 390th 436 10.6%
2019 18.62 383rd 439 12.8%
2021 9.98 413th 443 6.8%
2022 13.83 418th 467 10.5%
2023 10.00 419th 455 7.9%
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Rank History for Male students at Columbia Academy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools MN State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 19.20 375th 438 14.4%
2019 14.28 400th 454 11.9%
2021 12.18 396th 437 9.4%
2022 14.32 423rd 476 11.1%
2023 9.88 430th 464 7.3%
See the entire list of Best Minnesota Middle Schools for Male Students!

Rank History for Asian students at Columbia Academy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools MN State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2019 29.20 82nd 112 26.8%
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Rank History for African American students at Columbia Academy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools MN State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 40.39 82nd 137 40.1%
2019 38.85 85th 148 42.6%
2021 31.97 105th 141 25.5%
2022 28.20 120th 162 25.9%
2023 23.05 133rd 164 18.9%
See the entire list of Best Minnesota Middle Schools for African American Students!

Rank History for Hispanic students at Columbia Academy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools MN State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 40.85 92nd 163 43.6%
2019 30.29 127th 171 25.7%
2021 15.01 149th 156 4.5%
2022 20.43 170th 188 9.6%
2023 17.34 164th 178 7.9%
See the entire list of Best Minnesota Middle Schools for Hispanic Students!

Rank History for White students at Columbia Academy

Year Avg Standard Score Statewide Rank Total # Ranked Middle Schools MN State Percentile SchoolDigger Rating
2018 46.05 243rd 428 43.2%
2019 45.42 241st 428 43.7%
2021 23.02 355th 422 15.9%
2022 39.49 268th 438 38.8%
2023 41.09 265th 436 39.2%
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Data source: test scores: Minnesota Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

Redacting data from low population samples is a necessary step to ensure the reliability and accuracy of the results, as small sample sizes may not be representative of the broader population. Additionally, this measure helps protect the privacy of individuals belonging to these demographic groups.

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by a teacher
Friday, March 24, 2017

Open Quote I substitute taught here twice. Both times, I endured both verbal abuse from students and written abuse. Ex. While I was redirecting a student, another student wrote on the board in marker next to my name, "ugly fat ass" and scribbled in marker all over the lesson plan directions I wrote on the board. When I called the secretary for behavior support, she sent up a behavior specialist who asked the class to write down the name of the student on a piece of anonymous paper who wrote the negative comments about me. While he waited, I went down to the main office to show the principal what the student wrote about me and asked him to visit the classroom. He escorted me to the classroom. His only words to the class were to ask them to consider if they had done this to a classmate's parent. Then, it turns out it was a girl who wrote the negative comments about me on the board, but neither the behavior specialist or the principal acknowledged this to me, or required the student to apologize to me, which I found very inappropriate. Then, after the behavior specialist left, the class was required to read silently on their Chromebooks. I caught one of the 6th grade students surfing the internet and asked him to leave the classroom and go to the behavior specialist's room. He called me "fat ass" and slammed the door as he left. I will never substitute teach at this school again. It is a terrible school. Close Quote


by a student
Monday, February 2, 2009

Open Quote central middle school has great teachers that are willing to help those that are in need.They respect all customs,when I first came I thought that my parents were sending me to the worst school ever, But than I met the teachers and they were amazing and all were in their 20's-40's but that didnt stop them from being the amazing teachers that they are now.The classes are great too,this school really inspired me to think more aout my education and now my parents cant even shut me about highschool and college. Close Quote



Enrollment information for Columbia Academy

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Year White African American Asian Hispanic American Indian Pacific Islander Two or More Races Not Specified Total
1988 695 8 23 5 18 n/a n/a 0 749
1989 641 16 28 6 20 n/a n/a 0 711
1990 638 18 25 9 15 n/a n/a 0 705
1991 629 21 29 14 14 n/a n/a 0 707
1992 594 30 25 21 17 n/a n/a 0 687
1993 631 35 24 19 11 n/a n/a 0 720
1994 638 24 28 14 12 n/a n/a 0 716
1995 577 33 20 27 22 n/a n/a 0 679
1996 577 33 20 27 22 n/a n/a 0 679
1997 503 52 24 31 20 n/a n/a 0 630
1998 515 60 29 16 20 n/a n/a 0 640
1999 504 62 37 16 25 n/a n/a 0 644
2000 527 62 35 21 22 n/a n/a 0 667
2001 511 61 47 27 31 n/a n/a 0 677
2002 487 123 48 41 27 n/a n/a 0 726
2003 487 123 48 41 27 n/a n/a 0 726
2004 403 124 45 55 31 n/a n/a 0 658
2005 362 153 33 83 37 n/a n/a 0 668
2006 302 175 29 104 33 n/a n/a 0 643
2007 277 188 25 118 32 n/a n/a 0 640
2008 229 202 26 128 22 n/a n/a 0 607
2009 192 183 24 145 29 n/a n/a 0 573
2010 194 170 39 141 21 n/a n/a 0 565
2011 189 185 37 154 15 0 25 0 605
2012 168 197 28 153 15 0 18 0 579
2013 150 212 30 176 12 2 16 0 598
2014 158 224 37 205 11 0 26 0 661
2015 153 209 38 216 11 2 33 0 662
2016 148 237 31 236 9 2 46 0 709
2017 123 251 36 271 8 2 52 0 743
2018 133 276 31 279 14 0 58 0 791
2019 117 248 28 284 14 0 53 0 744
2020 112 231 27 303 10 1 56 0 740
2021 107 201 27 307 6 1 47 0 696
2022 111 201 26 286 6 1 53 0 684
2023 97 200 20 291 6 0 50 0 664

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Columbia Academy

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 749 47.1 15.9 14.4
1989 711 49.0 14.5 14.9
1990 705 46.9 15.0 14.2
1991 707 47.5 14.8 19.5
1992 687 51.3 13.3 21.7
1993 720 51.7 13.9 25
1994 716 51.5 13.9 23.9
1995 679 47.9 14.2 25
1996 679 47.9 14.2 25
1997 630 41.0 15.4 26.5
1998 640 n/a 0.0 25.6
1999 644 49.7 13.0 22.5
2000 667 48.7 13.7 35.1
2001 677 44.5 15.2 36.5
2002 726 41.1 17.7 47.9
2003 726 41.1 17.7 47.9
2004 658 44.5 14.8 48.9
2005 668 41.8 16.0 57.9
2006 643 46.7 13.8 59.6
2007 640 47.0 13.6 61.1
2008 607 47.9 12.7 64.6
2009 573 43.9 13.1 69.8
2010 565 37.0 15.2 72.7
2011 605 36.3 16.6 75.4
2012 579 37.8 15.3 75.6
2013 598 38.2 15.6 78.3
2014 661 40.1 16.4 81.7
2015 662 44.0 15.0 80.7
2016 709 45.0 15.7 80.8
2017 743 41.5 17.8 82.5
2018 791 43.1 18.3 78.5
2019 744 42.4 17.5 74.1
2020 740 37.6 19.6 77
2021 696 45.4 15.3 79.3
2022 684 40.1 17.0 66.7
2023 664 38.3 17.3 83.9

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Columbia Academy

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Year # Students Full-time Teachers Student/Teacher ratio % Free/Discounted Lunch
1988 749 47.1 15.9 14.4
1989 711 49.0 14.5 14.9
1990 705 46.9 15.0 14.2
1991 707 47.5 14.8 19.5
1992 687 51.3 13.3 21.7
1993 720 51.7 13.9 25
1994 716 51.5 13.9 23.9
1995 679 47.9 14.2 25
1996 679 47.9 14.2 25
1997 630 41.0 15.4 26.5
1998 640 n/a 0.0 25.6
1999 644 49.7 13.0 22.5
2000 667 48.7 13.7 35.1
2001 677 44.5 15.2 36.5
2002 726 41.1 17.7 47.9
2003 726 41.1 17.7 47.9
2004 658 44.5 14.8 48.9
2005 668 41.8 16.0 57.9
2006 643 46.7 13.8 59.6
2007 640 47.0 13.6 61.1
2008 607 47.9 12.7 64.6
2009 573 43.9 13.1 69.8
2010 565 37.0 15.2 72.7
2011 605 36.3 16.6 75.4
2012 579 37.8 15.3 75.6
2013 598 38.2 15.6 78.3
2014 661 40.1 16.4 81.7
2015 662 44.0 15.0 80.7
2016 709 45.0 15.7 80.8
2017 743 41.5 17.8 82.5
2018 791 43.1 18.3 78.5
2019 744 42.4 17.5 74.1
2020 740 37.6 19.6 77
2021 696 45.4 15.3 79.3
2022 684 40.1 17.0 66.7
2023 664 38.3 17.3 83.9

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.
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Per Pupil Expenditures for Columbia Academy

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YearTotal Expenditures Per Pupil
2019 $12,741

Data source: Minnesota Department of Education
Pre and Post Pandemic Data

Impact of COVID-19 on Columbia Academy

The coronavirus has had a profound impact on education in America. Learning shifted online overnight, attendance numbers dwindled, and enrollment decreased. SchoolDigger.com is making it easier for you to better assess how COVID-19 has impacted your school. Through the collection of pre-pandemic (2019) and current data, SchoolDigger.com is sharing test scores, enrollment numbers and school demographics from schools across the country – and we make it easy to see how impacted schools compare locally and statewide.

Rankings

Rank
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Rank
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Ranks 452nd of 533 Middle schoolsRanks 482nd of 529 Middle schools
 6.3%

Test Scores

% proficient
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
% proficient
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
6th Grade Math (Columbia Academy)16.96.8
 10.1%
   6th Grade Math (Columbia Heights Public School District)16.96.8
 10.1%
   6th Grade Math (Minnesota)50.539.7
 10.8%
6th Grade Reading (Columbia Academy)33.220.7
 12.5%
   6th Grade Reading (Columbia Heights Public School District)33.220.7
 12.5%
   6th Grade Reading (Minnesota)62.853.4
 9.4%
7th Grade Math (Columbia Academy)32.29.1
 23.2%
   7th Grade Math (Columbia Heights Public School District)32.29.1
 23.2%
   7th Grade Math (Minnesota)52.139.7
 12.4%
7th Grade Reading (Columbia Academy)37.118.2
 18.9%
   7th Grade Reading (Columbia Heights Public School District)37.118.2
 18.9%
   7th Grade Reading (Minnesota)57.545.2
 12.3%
8th Grade Math (Columbia Academy)34.913.8
 21.1%
   8th Grade Math (Columbia Heights Public School District)34.913.8
 21.1%
   8th Grade Math (Minnesota)55.240.3
 14.9%
8th Grade Reading (Columbia Academy)41.321.8
 19.4%
   8th Grade Reading (Columbia Heights Public School District)41.321.8
 19.4%
   8th Grade Reading (Minnesota)57.744.8
 12.9%
8th Grade Science (Columbia Academy)21.19.4
 11.7%
   8th Grade Science (Columbia Heights Public School District)21.19.4
 11.7%
   8th Grade Science (Minnesota)4327.6
 15.4%

Student Body

Number of students
Pre-pandemic (2018-2019)
Number of students
Post pandemic (2022-2023)
Change (%)
Total Students744664
 10.8%
African American248200
 19.4%
American Indian146
 57.1%
Asian2820
 28.6%
Hispanic284291
 2.5%
Pacific Islander00
White11797
 17.1%
Two or More Races5350
 5.7%
% Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients74.1%83.9%
 9.8%


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In the 2022-23 school year, 664 students attended Columbia Academy.

Columbia Academy ranks in the bottom 9.0% of Minnesota middle schools.

Students at Columbia Academy are 44% Hispanic, 30% African American, 15% White, 8% Two or more races, 3% Asian.

Students who attend Columbia Academy usually go on to attend Columbia Heights Senior High


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