St. Cloud Math & Science Middle
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 11% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
About St. Cloud Math & Science Middle
St. Cloud Math & Science Middle is a middle school of one-room-style scale in SAINT CLOUD, Minnesota, operated by Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ, instructing 91 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 82% leaner than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.
Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 357 students; St. Cloud Math & Science Middle is among them.
Looking at the student body, St. Cloud Math & Science Middle lists that 100% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Stearns County (around 44%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, St. Cloud Math & Science Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 11.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.1%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Stearns County) shows that median household income runs about $77,066, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. St. Cloud Math & Science Middle is one of 74 public schools in Stearns County (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students).
Nearest neighbor: Saint Cloud Math and Science Academ, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around St. Cloud Math & Science Middle.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. St. Cloud Math & Science Middle is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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