Brooklyn Center Early College Acad

Located at 5910 SHINGLE CREEK PARKWAY, in BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota, Brooklyn Center Early College Acad is a rural-scale four-year high school that educates 60 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Brooklyn Center Community Schools. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Brooklyn Center Early College Acad sits 84% smaller than that benchmark.

Brooklyn Center Early College Acad is one of 7 schools operated by Brooklyn Center Community Schools, a district that educates 2,174 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Brooklyn Center Early College Acad lists that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 23% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Brooklyn Center Early College Acad has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at Brooklyn Center Early College Acad qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which Brooklyn Center Early College Acad is one.

The closest other public school is INSIGHT SCHOOL OF MINNESOTA, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brooklyn Center Early College Acad.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Brooklyn Center Early College Acad's enrollment has increased 161% since 2018, when it stood at 23 (now 60). Over the same period, the Black share rose from 57% to 67%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 4.7:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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