SET Academy Elementary

Located at 620 OLSON MEMORIAL HWY, in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, SET Academy Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary-level community that enrolls 463 students (grades K through 5), part of Metro Schools Charter. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 35% above typical.

SET Academy Elementary is one of 4 schools operated by Metro Schools Charter, a district that instructs 1,535 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SET Academy Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (98%). That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, SET Academy Elementary sits in the top 10% of Minnesota schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 13.2%; actual is 42.2%, +29.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Hennepin County shows median household income runs about $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which SET Academy Elementary is one.

Metro College Prep 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 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SET Academy Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 23.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. SET Academy Elementary is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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