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HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS
Located at 1515 BREWSTER ST, in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS is a sprawling four-year high school that hosts 791 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 113% bigger than typical.
HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 2,503 students. HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Asian (97%). By comparison, Ramsey County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ramsey County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.5%, the actual is 30.9%, a residual of +8.4 points.
In the surrounding community, Ramsey County reports that 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%. In all, Ramsey County runs 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), of which HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS is one.
Nearest neighbor: Hmong College Prep Academy ES, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS has expanded 60%, going from 495 students in 2018 to 791 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 5.1:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.
Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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