STEAM Academy Charter School

STEAM Academy Charter School is an elementary-level community of minimally staffed scale in INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minnesota, overseen by STEAM Academy Charter School, hosting 77 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so STEAM Academy Charter School sits 78% smaller than that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, STEAM Academy Charter School records that 64% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest breaks down as 25% White, 12% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 88% of students at STEAM Academy Charter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Dakota County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, STEAM Academy Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.6%, the actual is 9.9%, a residual of -7.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Dakota County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), STEAM Academy Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Discovery Charter Elementary School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts STEAM Academy Charter School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 35.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. STEAM Academy Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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