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ACHIEVE LANGUAGE ACADEMY
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ACHIEVE LANGUAGE ACADEMY
ACHIEVE LANGUAGE ACADEMY operates as a reasonably sized primary school in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, part of ACHIEVE LANGUAGE ACADEMY. Current enrollment sits at 451 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 31% bigger than the state mean of about 344.
ACHIEVE LANGUAGE ACADEMY sits inside ACHIEVE LANGUAGE ACADEMY, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
On the student-mix side, ACHIEVE LANGUAGE ACADEMY lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 30% Asian, 10% Black, 5% multiracial, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 8% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 81% of students at ACHIEVE LANGUAGE ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Ramsey County's rate of about 57%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ACHIEVE LANGUAGE ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 18.7%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Ramsey County put median household income runs about $81,568, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Ramsey County's 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), ACHIEVE LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Nokomis Montessori North Campus, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ACHIEVE LANGUAGE ACADEMY comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 20.2%.
The school occupies a high-density site. ACHIEVE LANGUAGE ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ACHIEVE LANGUAGE ACADEMY has remained close to its prior level, going from 448 students in 2018 to 451 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 39% to 50%.
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