Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 28% 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 15 points, placing it in Minnesota's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ
Set in SAINT CLOUD, Minnesota, Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ is a modestly sized primary school, operated by Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ. It teaches 266 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.
Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 357 students; Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ is among them.
On demographics, Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ records that nearly all students (99%) are Black. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Stearns County's rate of about 44%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ sits in the top 10% of Minnesota schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 12.7%; actual is 28.2%, +15.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Stearns County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,066, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Stearns County's 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students), Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ is one campus in the mix.
St. Cloud Math & Science Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
The campus sits in a city-core setting. Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 28%: 208 students in 2018 compared to 266 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.
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