New Millennium Academy Charter

Set in BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota, New Millennium Academy Charter is an expansive K-5 school, run under New Millennium Academy. It enrolls 845 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 146% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

New Millennium Academy Charter sits inside New Millennium Academy, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, New Millennium Academy Charter shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Asian (93%). Beyond that, the school records 4% Black. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, New Millennium Academy Charter performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.0%, the actual is 21.7%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) records that the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which New Millennium Academy Charter is one.

Nearest neighbor: NORTHPORT ELEMENTARY, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around New Millennium Academy Charter. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), New Millennium Academy Charter ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 15.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area. New Millennium Academy Charter operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Millennium Academy Charter has rose 15%, going from 733 students in 2018 to 845 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.