Gentry Academy Middle

As a very small middle school in VADNAIS HEIGHTS, Minnesota, Gentry Academy Middle educates 195 students from grades 5 through 8, operated by Gentry Academy Charter School. That puts it 61% below the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

Within Gentry Academy Charter School, which oversees 2 schools and 329 students, Gentry Academy Middle is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Gentry Academy Middle logs that nearly all students (91%) are White. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 7% of students at Gentry Academy Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Ramsey County's rate of about 57%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Gentry Academy Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 61.2%; actual is 46.9%, a gap of -14.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Ramsey County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,568 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Ramsey County's 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), Gentry Academy Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Gentry Academy High, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Gentry Academy Middle comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting. Gentry Academy Middle is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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