Success Academy Bloomington Elem

Success Academy Bloomington Elem is one of the very small elementary schools in BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota, overseen by Success Academy, with 117 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 66% smaller than the state mean of about 344.

Within Success Academy, which oversees 4 schools and 366 students, Success Academy Bloomington Elem is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Success Academy Bloomington Elem shows that 100% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the resource side, On paper, Success Academy Bloomington Elem has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Success Academy Bloomington Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.4%, the actual is 20.4%, a residual of +5.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Hennepin County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which Success Academy Bloomington Elem is one.

Nearest neighbor: Success Academy Bloomington Middle, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Success Academy Bloomington Elem at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 23.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. As a public charter, Success Academy Bloomington Elem runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Success Academy Bloomington Elem's enrollment has grew 46% since 2018, when it stood at 80 (now 117). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 8.0:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.