AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL

AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL is a primary school of compact scale in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, operated by AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL, educateing 239 students in grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 31% smaller than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Across the 2 schools in AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL (419 students total), AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 74% of students at AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 25.5%; this one comes in at 11.6%, -13.9 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Hennepin County shows 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 AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

AURORA MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 10.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. As a public charter, AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 235 (now 239). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

On the community side, members of the AURORA CHARTER SCHOOL community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.