Hiawatha Leadership Acdy-Northrop

Hiawatha Leadership Acdy-Northrop, a reasonably sized elementary campus in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, part of HIAWATHA ACADEMIES, serves 404 students, covering grades K through 4.

HIAWATHA ACADEMIES runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,660 students. Hiawatha Leadership Acdy-Northrop is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Hiawatha Leadership Acdy-Northrop logs that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 8% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Hiawatha Leadership Acdy-Northrop has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 90% of students at Hiawatha Leadership Acdy-Northrop qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Hiawatha Leadership Acdy-Northrop sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 16.8%; this one delivers 10.7%.

Across the wider county, Hennepin County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Hiawatha Leadership Acdy-Northrop is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

Hiawatha College Prep - Northrop is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hiawatha Leadership Acdy-Northrop comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. Hiawatha Leadership Acdy-Northrop is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 8%: 373 students in 2018 compared to 404 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 84% to 92%.

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