Sojourner Truth Academy

Sojourner Truth Academy is an elementary campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, one of the schools within Sojourner Truth Academy, instructing 383 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Sojourner Truth Academy is the operating authority for Sojourner Truth Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

In terms of who attends, Sojourner Truth Academy logs that Black students make up the majority at 71%. Beyond that, the school shows 24% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the resource side, Roughly 92% of students at Sojourner Truth Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Sojourner Truth Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.7%, the actual is 7.8%, a residual of -7.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hennepin County put the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which Sojourner Truth Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cityview Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sojourner Truth Academy. On composite proficiency, Sojourner Truth Academy comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 14.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. Sojourner Truth Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sojourner Truth Academy has changed only slightly, going from 379 students in 2018 to 383 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.