Hiawatha College Prep - Kingfield

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, is home to Hiawatha College Prep - Kingfield, a very small middle-grades school. The school counted 74 students in 2023-24, covering grade 8. The school is 85% below the average for middle schools in Minnesota.

Across its 4 schools, HIAWATHA ACADEMIES enrolls 1,660 students. Hiawatha College Prep - Kingfield is one of those schools.

Of every 100 students at Hiawatha College Prep - Kingfield, about 84 are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 12% Black and 3% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Hennepin County is roughly 8% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 28%.

Hiawatha College Prep - Kingfield has 10.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 18.6:1. The school's 18.6:1 compares with an average of 17.5:1 for middle schools in Minnesota. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 88% at Hiawatha College Prep - Kingfield. That rate is above the 43% average among public schools in Hennepin County.

In Hennepin County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $97,653 a year, roughly 54% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Public schools in Hennepin County number 496, with about 177,509 students.

Measured in a straight line, Venture Academy Middle School is less than a tenth of a mile from Hiawatha College Prep - Kingfield. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Hiawatha College Prep - Kingfield is a public charter school.

Enrollment was 360 in 2017-18 and 74 in 2023-24. Large swings like this can come from changes to the grades a school serves. Hispanic students went from 92% of enrollment in 2017-18 to 84% in 2023-24. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 13.0:1 in 2017-18 to 7.2:1 in 2023-24.

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