Friendship Academy of Arts - Interm

Set in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Friendship Academy of Arts - Interm is a very small middle-grades school, part of Friendship Academy of the Arts. It instructs 167 students across grades 2 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 66% leaner than the state mean of about 495.

Across the 2 schools in Friendship Academy of the Arts (211 students total), Friendship Academy of Arts - Interm accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Friendship Academy of Arts - Interm reports that nearly all students (96%) are Black. The remainder consists of 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Friendship Academy of Arts - Interm lists 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 29.6:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 81% of students are eligible 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 noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Friendship Academy of Arts - Interm performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.6%, the actual is 16.5%, a residual of -5.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Hennepin County reports that 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. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Friendship Academy of Arts - Interm is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Northrop Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Friendship Academy of Arts - Interm ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site. As a public charter, Friendship Academy of Arts - Interm runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.