ARCADIA CHARTER SCHOOL

ARCADIA CHARTER SCHOOL is a tiny 9-12 campus in NORTHFIELD, Minnesota, one of the schools within ARCADIA CHARTER SCHOOL. The school instructs 116 students in grades 6 through 12. That puts it 69% smaller than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

ARCADIA CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of ARCADIA CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, ARCADIA CHARTER SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%). The remainder breaks down as 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Rice County's rate of about 46%.

With demographic context factored in, ARCADIA CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of +1.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Rice County) records that median household earnings sit near $83,181, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Rice County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,301 students), ARCADIA CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

BRIDGEWATER ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ARCADIA CHARTER SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 58.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area. ARCADIA CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. ARCADIA CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 117 (now 116). The White share of enrollment edged down from 90% to 81% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 7.7:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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