GOA School of Logic
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 GOA School of Logic
GOA School of Logic is one of the tiny 6-8 campuss in FARMINGTON, Minnesota, part of Great Oaks Academy Charter School, with 101 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so GOA School of Logic sits 80% smaller than that benchmark.
GOA School of Logic is one of 2 schools operated by Great Oaks Academy Charter School, a district that hosts 531 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, GOA School of Logic logs that nearly all students (82%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 8% multiracial, 6% Black.
Looking at school resources, On paper, GOA School of Logic has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Dakota County's rate of about 34%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GOA School of Logic sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.9%; this one delivers 54.2%.
Around the school, census data for Dakota County shows median household income runs about $106,318, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), GOA School of Logic is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: 196Online High School, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GOA School of Logic. On composite proficiency, GOA School of Logic comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.1%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting. GOA School of Logic operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
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