Best Academy

Best Academy is one of the moderately sized primary schools in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, run under BEST ACADEMY, with 508 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 48% larger than typical.

BEST ACADEMY comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 790 students; Best Academy is among them.

In terms of who attends, Best Academy shows that nearly all students (93%) are Black. The remainder looks like 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Best Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Best Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.3%, the actual is 20.1%, a residual of +4.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, 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 Best Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wakanda Virtual Academy, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Best Academy.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. Best Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Best Academy has fell 12%, going from 576 students in 2018 to 508 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 98% to 93% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.