Midway Star Academy

Midway Star Academy is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, one of the schools within Midway Star Academy, with 393 students on its rolls from grades K through 8.

Operationally, Midway Star Academy answers to Midway Star Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, Midway Star Academy reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (99%). By comparison, Ramsey County as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Midway Star Academy has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.5:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Ramsey County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Midway Star Academy ranks in the top 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 11.4%; Midway Star Academy posts 25.0%, +13.5 points above that line.

In the broader community, Ramsey County reports that median household income runs about $81,568, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Midway Star Academy is one of 302 public schools in Ramsey County (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students).

HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Midway Star Academy comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.0%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. As a public charter, Midway Star Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Midway Star Academy's enrollment has ticked up 52% since 2018, when it stood at 259 (now 393). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 8.8:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

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