SciTech Academy Charter School

SciTech Academy Charter School operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in RICHFIELD, Minnesota, part of SciTech Academy Charter School. Current enrollment sits at 342 students spanning grades K through 8.

SciTech Academy Charter School sits inside SciTech Academy Charter School, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, SciTech Academy Charter School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (98%). By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, SciTech Academy Charter School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SciTech Academy Charter School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 11.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 11.0%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Hennepin County put median household earnings sit near $97,653, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which SciTech Academy Charter School is one.

PARTNERSHIP ACADEMY INC. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SciTech Academy Charter School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 45.7%.

The school occupies a residential site. As a public charter, SciTech Academy Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.