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PACT CHARTER SECONDARY
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 PACT CHARTER SECONDARY
PACT CHARTER SECONDARY is one of the sizable senior highs in RAMSEY, Minnesota, one of the schools within PACT CHARTER SCHOOL, with 730 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. That puts it 97% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.
PACT CHARTER SCHOOL runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,403 students. PACT CHARTER SECONDARY is one of those campuses.
On demographics, PACT CHARTER SECONDARY shows that 78% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 10% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Anoka County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at school resources, On paper, PACT CHARTER SECONDARY has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Anoka County (around 42%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PACT CHARTER SECONDARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.7%; this one delivers 46.5%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Anoka County shows the typical household earns roughly $101,869 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. PACT CHARTER SECONDARY is one of 145 public schools in Anoka County (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students).
Brookside Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PACT CHARTER SECONDARY ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area. PACT CHARTER SECONDARY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PACT CHARTER SECONDARY has edged up 127%, going from 322 students in 2018 to 730 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged up from 3% to 10% over that span.
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Anoka County at a glance
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- PACT Charter ElementaryElementary · 673 students
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- Brookside ElementaryElementary · 779 students
- PACT Charter ElementaryElementary · 673 students
- Brookside Elementary1.6 mi · 779
- PACT Charter Elementary2.2 mi · 673
- Ramsey Elementary2.8 mi · 910
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- Secondary Technical Ed Prog S.T.E.P4.1 mi · 83
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