Banaadir Academy

Banaadir Academy is a very small secondary school in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, one of the schools within Minnesota Transitions Charter Sch. The school works with 125 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 66% leaner than the state mean of about 371.

Minnesota Transitions Charter Sch comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,721 students; Banaadir Academy is among them.

On the student-mix side, Banaadir Academy lists that nearly all students (99%) are Black. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at Banaadir Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Banaadir Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 13.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.2%.

Around the school, census data for Hennepin County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which Banaadir Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Banaadir Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Banaadir Academy at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 15.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. Banaadir Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.