Aim Academy of Science & Technology
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 13% 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%.
About Aim Academy of Science & Technology
Located at 2831 12TH AVE S, in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Aim Academy of Science & Technology is a compact secondary school that enrolls 178 students (grades 6 through 12), part of Aim Academy of Science & Technology. Enrollment runs roughly 52% smaller than the state mean of about 371.
Aim Academy of Science & Technology is a school of Aim Academy of Science & Technology, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
Demographically, Aim Academy of Science & Technology reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (100%). That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is north of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Aim Academy of Science & Technology sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 12.5%; this one delivers 23.8%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) reports that median household income runs about $97,653, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which Aim Academy of Science & Technology is one.
Nearest neighbor: Andersen Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
The campus sits in an urban setting. As a public charter, Aim Academy of Science & Technology runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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