STEP Academy 6-12 - Burnsville

STEP Academy 6-12 - Burnsville is a middle school of very small scale in BURNSVILLE, Minnesota, part of STEP Academy, educateing 96 students in grades 6 through 9. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so STEP Academy 6-12 - Burnsville sits 81% leaner than that benchmark.

Within STEP Academy, which oversees 4 schools and 847 students, STEP Academy 6-12 - Burnsville is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, STEP Academy 6-12 - Burnsville logs that nearly all students (100%) are Black. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, STEP Academy 6-12 - Burnsville has 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.7:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dakota County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, STEP Academy 6-12 - Burnsville sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 13.0%; this one delivers 25.4%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Dakota County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), STEP Academy 6-12 - Burnsville is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is STEP Academy Kg-5th - Burnsville, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, STEP Academy 6-12 - Burnsville comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. STEP Academy 6-12 - Burnsville is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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