Success Academy St. Cloud Elem

Success Academy St. Cloud Elem is a tight-knit elementary school in SAINT CLOUD, Minnesota, one of the schools within Success Academy. The school enrolls 140 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 59% leaner than the state mean of about 344.

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

On demographics, Success Academy St. Cloud Elem reports that nearly all students (99%) are Black. The wider county runs roughly 9% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Success Academy St. Cloud Elem has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Stearns County's rate of about 44%.

After controlling for student poverty, Success Academy St. Cloud Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 12.1%, the actual is 20.5%, a residual of +8.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Stearns County indicate 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. In all, Stearns County runs 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students), of which Success Academy St. Cloud Elem is one.

The closest other public school is Success Academy St. Cloud - Middle, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Success Academy St. Cloud Elem ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 26.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. Success Academy St. Cloud Elem operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

On this page, the feed for Success Academy St. Cloud Elem typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.