Banaadir Elementary

As a close-knit elementary campus in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Banaadir Elementary works with 149 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Minnesota Transitions Charter Sch. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Banaadir Elementary sits 57% smaller than that benchmark.

Minnesota Transitions Charter Sch runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 5,721 students. Banaadir Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Banaadir Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (95%). The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Banaadir Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.8:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 97% of students at Banaadir Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, Banaadir Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 12.8%, the actual is 10.8%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Across the wider county, Hennepin County reports that median household income runs about $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Banaadir Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Menlo Park Academy Extended, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Banaadir Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 23.1%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Banaadir Elementary has grew 31%, going from 114 students in 2018 to 149 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 100% to 95%. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

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