Surad Academy

Surad Academy is an elementary campus of one-room-style scale in FARIBAULT, Minnesota, part of Surad Academy, instructing 77 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 78% below the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Surad Academy sits inside Surad Academy, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Surad Academy reports that 100% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Rice County as a whole is about 7% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Surad Academy has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Surad Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Rice County's rate of about 46%.

With demographic context factored in, Surad Academy is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 11.3%; this one delivers 24.7%, a residual of +13.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Rice County indicate median household income runs about $83,181, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Rice County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,301 students), Surad Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LINCOLN ELEMENTARY, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Surad Academy. On composite proficiency, Surad Academy comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 20.9%.

The school occupies a town-based site. Surad Academy 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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