Prodeo Academy St. Paul Middle
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 13% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in Minnesota's top 10%.
About Prodeo Academy St. Paul Middle
Prodeo Academy St. Paul Middle operates as a tiny middle school in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, overseen by Prodeo Academy. Current enrollment sits at 131 students spanning grades 5 through 7. Compared to the state average of about 495 students per school, that is 74% leaner than typical.
Within Prodeo Academy, which oversees 6 schools and 1,116 students, Prodeo Academy St. Paul Middle is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Prodeo Academy St. Paul Middle reports that 74% of the student body identifies as Asian. Other groups include 23% Black, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 15% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Prodeo Academy St. Paul Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at Prodeo Academy St. Paul Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ramsey County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Prodeo Academy St. Paul Middle ranks in the top 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 13.4%; Prodeo Academy St. Paul Middle posts 37.1%, +23.8 points above that line.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Ramsey County) shows that median household income runs about $81,568, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Ramsey County's 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), Prodeo Academy St. Paul Middle is one campus in the mix.
Prodeo Academy St. Paul Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Prodeo Academy St. Paul Middle ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 21.3%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area. As a public charter, Prodeo Academy St. Paul Middle runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
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