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PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC.
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% 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 PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC.
Located at 6500 NICOLLET AVE S, in RICHFIELD, Minnesota, PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC. is a reasonably sized elementary campus that teaches 515 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC.. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC. sits 50% bigger than that benchmark.
PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC. sits inside PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC., the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
On demographics, PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC. shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). Beyond that, the school shows 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 8% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC. has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC. performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.3%, the actual is 24.5%, a residual of +6.2 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,653, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC. is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: SciTech Academy Charter School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC.. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC. at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 33.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area. As a public charter, PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC. runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Looking at the recent track record. PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC.'s enrollment has expanded 103% since 2018, when it stood at 254 (now 515).
On the community side, members of the PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC. community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Hennepin County at a glance
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