Hennepin Schools Upper Campus

Hennepin Schools Upper Campus is one of the cozy middle schools in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, operated by Hennepin Schools, with 207 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. That puts it 58% leaner than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

Hennepin Schools comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 447 students; Hennepin Schools Upper Campus is among them.

Looking at the student body, Hennepin Schools Upper Campus logs that Black students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder breaks down as 18% Hispanic, 7% Asian. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hennepin Schools Upper Campus performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 13.4%, the actual is 21.9%, a residual of +8.5 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Hennepin Schools Upper Campus is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hennepin Schools Lower Campus, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hennepin Schools Upper Campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hennepin Schools Upper Campus at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 31.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Hennepin Schools Upper Campus operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Hennepin Schools Upper Campus typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.