Success Academy Bloomington Middle

Success Academy Bloomington Middle, an one-room-style middle school in BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota, one of the schools within Success Academy, caters to 63 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 495 students per school, that is 87% leaner than typical.

Success Academy comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 366 students; Success Academy Bloomington Middle is among them.

Demographically, Success Academy Bloomington Middle records that 98% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 90% of students at Success Academy Bloomington Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Success Academy Bloomington Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.4%, the actual is 27.0%, a residual of +10.6 points.

In the broader community, Hennepin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Success Academy Bloomington Elem, 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 Middle at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 22.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. Success Academy Bloomington Middle operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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