Prairie Seeds El School Academy

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in BROOKLYN PARK, Minnesota, Prairie Seeds El School Academy hosts 359 students from grades K through 5, part of PRAIRIE SEEDS ACADEMY.

PRAIRIE SEEDS ACADEMY comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 860 students; Prairie Seeds El School Academy is among them.

On the student-mix side, Prairie Seeds El School Academy lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Asian (92%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 7% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Prairie Seeds El School Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.5%, the actual is 21.2%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Across the wider county, Hennepin County reports that 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. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which Prairie Seeds El School Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Prairie Seeds Middle School Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Prairie Seeds El School Academy comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area. Prairie Seeds El School Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Prairie Seeds El School Academy's enrollment has increased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 345 (now 359). Over the same period, the Asian share rose from 68% to 92%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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