Summary:
ZIP code 55444, in the Brooklyn Park area, is home to two elementary schools: Monroe Elementary School - MSE, which serves grades K–5 as part of Anoka-Hennepin School District, and Spero Academy Brooklyn Park, which serves grades K–6 under the Spero Academy district. Together they enroll about 680 students, but their results are far apart.
Monroe Elementary School - MSE is the stronger and clearly improving school. Its 2025–26 rank is 271 of 869 (69th percentile, 3 stars), up from 459 of 881 (48th percentile, 2 stars) two years earlier. Math proficiency is 64.6% and reading 54.1%, both above its district (51% math, 50.9% reading) and the state (44.9% math, 48.6% reading). Math is especially strong in 3rd grade (70.6%) and 4th grade (74.7%), easing to 48.9% in 5th grade — still above the state's 41.9%. The weak spot is science at 22.8%, below district (27.1%) and state (25.5%) and down from 32.69% the prior year; since science is reported only for 5th grade, this may reflect one cohort.
Spero Academy Brooklyn Park is small (127 students) and ranks 773 of 869 (11th percentile, 1 star), with a district rank of 416 of 458 (9th percentile, 0 stars). Proficiency is far below state in every subject: math 14.7%, reading 27.5%, science 12.5%. Its brightest signal is reading, which rose from 12.96% to 27.5% — a 14.54-point gain — and climbs by grade: 22.2%, 25.0%, 31.3% and 33.3% from 3rd through 6th. Notably, Spero has a lower free/reduced lunch rate (38.58% vs 46.84%) and a much smaller student–teacher ratio (7.4 vs 14.8) than Monroe, yet far lower proficiency, suggesting those factors alone do not explain the gap. Both schools saw science decline while math and reading improved.
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