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Community School of Excellence - MS
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 24% 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 - MS
Community School of Excellence - MS is a junior high of mid-tier scale in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, operated by Community School of Excellence, caters to 560 students in grades 5 through 8.
Across the 3 schools in Community School of Excellence (1,455 students total), Community School of Excellence - MS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Community School of Excellence - MS lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Asian (99%). By comparison, Ramsey County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Community School of Excellence - MS has 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 197.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Community School of Excellence - MS higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 85% of students at Community School of Excellence - MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Ramsey County's rate of about 57%.
After controlling for student poverty, Community School of Excellence - MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.5%, the actual is 23.9%, a residual of +4.5 points.
Around the school, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Ramsey County's 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), Community School of Excellence - MS is one campus in the mix.
Community School of Excellence Elem is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Community School of Excellence - MS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Community School of Excellence - MS at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 25.8%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting. Community School of Excellence - MS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Community School of Excellence - MS typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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