Prodeo Columbia Heights Middle

Prodeo Columbia Heights Middle operates as a tight-knit junior high in COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minnesota, operated by Prodeo Academy. Current enrollment sits at 291 students spanning grades 5 through 8. That puts it 41% leaner than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

Prodeo Academy comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,116 students; Prodeo Columbia Heights Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Prodeo Columbia Heights Middle reports that Black students make up the majority at 66%; the rest breaks down as 26% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 9% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Anoka County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Prodeo Columbia Heights Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.2%, the actual is 18.0%, a residual of +0.8 points.

Around the school, 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 the poverty rate sits near 5%. Prodeo Columbia Heights Middle is one of 145 public schools in Anoka County (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students).

Nearest neighbor: Prodeo Columbia Heights Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Prodeo Columbia Heights Middle. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Prodeo Columbia Heights Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 20.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area. Prodeo Columbia Heights Middle operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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