Community School of Excellence High
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 4 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
About Community School of Excellence High
Located at 270 LARPENTEUR AVE W, in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, Community School of Excellence High is a compact senior high that serves 199 students (grades 9 through 12), part of Community School of Excellence. Enrollment runs roughly 46% smaller than the state mean of about 371.
Across the 3 schools in Community School of Excellence (1,455 students total), Community School of Excellence High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Community School of Excellence High reports that 100% of students identify as Asian, making the school strongly Asian-majority. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.
On the resource side, The school employs 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Ramsey County's rate of about 57%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Community School of Excellence High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 18.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.9%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Ramsey County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,568 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ramsey County runs 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), of which Community School of Excellence High is one.
The closest other public school is Community School of Excellence - MS, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Community School of Excellence High. On composite proficiency, Community School of Excellence High comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.4%.
Community School of Excellence High operates from a downtown location. Community School of Excellence High is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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