Bultum Academy

Bultum Academy, a close-knit elementary campus in COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minnesota, one of the schools within Bultum Academy Charter School, instructs 249 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 28% leaner than typical.

Bultum Academy sits inside Bultum Academy Charter School, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, Bultum Academy records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (96%). Beyond that, the school shows 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 9% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Anoka County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Bultum Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.4%, the actual is 30.2%, a residual of +9.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Anoka County indicate median household income runs about $101,869, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Anoka County's 145 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students), Bultum Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Waite Park Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bultum Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bultum Academy at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 35.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. Bultum Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On allk12, the feed for Bultum Academy typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.