Prairie Seeds Middle School Academy

Prairie Seeds Middle School Academy is one of the cozy middle schools in BROOKLYN PARK, Minnesota, overseen by PRAIRIE SEEDS ACADEMY, with 219 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 56% leaner than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

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

Demographically, Prairie Seeds Middle School Academy logs that 84% of students identify as Asian, making the school strongly Asian-majority. The remainder consists of 9% Hispanic, 6% Black. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Prairie Seeds Middle School Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.5%, the actual is 18.1%, a residual of -10.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Middle School Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Prairie Seeds High School Academy, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Prairie Seeds Middle School Academy ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 23.1%.

Prairie Seeds Middle School Academy operates from a bedroom-community location. As a public charter, Prairie Seeds Middle School Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 10%: 199 students in 2018 compared to 219 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share edged up from 63% to 84%. Class-load math has fell: from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the Prairie Seeds Middle School Academy community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.