Aspire Academy Middle School

Aspire Academy Middle School, an one-room-style middle school in SHAKOPEE, Minnesota, run under Aspire Academy Charter School, hosts 42 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 92% leaner than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

Within Aspire Academy Charter School, which oversees 2 schools and 205 students, Aspire Academy Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Aspire Academy Middle School logs that 100% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Scott County as a whole is about 6% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Aspire Academy Middle School lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 3.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Scott County's rate of about 28%.

With demographic context factored in, Aspire Academy Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.0%, the actual is 30.0%, a residual of +11.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Scott County indicate the typical household earns roughly $119,314 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. In all, Scott County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,041 students), of which Aspire Academy Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Aspire Academy Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Aspire Academy Middle School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. Aspire Academy Middle School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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