Horizon Science Academy Twin Cities

Horizon Science Academy Twin Cities operates as a close-knit primary school in RICHFIELD, Minnesota, one of the schools within Horizon Science Academy Twin Cities. Current enrollment sits at 171 students spanning grades K through 7. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Horizon Science Academy Twin Cities sits 50% smaller than that benchmark.

Horizon Science Academy Twin Cities is the operating authority for Horizon Science Academy Twin Cities, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

Looking at the student body, Horizon Science Academy Twin Cities records that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Horizon Science Academy Twin Cities reports 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 39.4:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Horizon Science Academy Twin Cities performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 11.3%, the actual is 18.1%, a residual of +6.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Hennepin County put the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which Horizon Science Academy Twin Cities is one.

Richfield College Experience Prg is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Horizon Science Academy Twin Cities comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.5%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. Horizon Science Academy Twin Cities 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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