Aspire Academy Elementary

As a tight-knit elementary-level community in SHAKOPEE, Minnesota, Aspire Academy Elementary works with 163 students from grades K through 5, run under Aspire Academy Charter School. Enrollment runs roughly 53% below the state mean of about 344.

Aspire Academy Elementary is one of 2 schools operated by Aspire Academy Charter School, a district that caters to 205 students overall.

On demographics, Aspire Academy Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (99%). That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 6%.

On the income-and-resources front, Aspire Academy Elementary reports 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Aspire Academy Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Scott County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Aspire Academy Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.9%, the actual is 12.7%, a residual of -6.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Scott County put the typical household earns roughly $119,314 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Scott County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,041 students), Aspire Academy Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Aspire Academy Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Aspire Academy Elementary at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 41.4%.

Aspire Academy Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location. As a public charter, Aspire Academy Elementary runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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