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What tradition at Twin Cities International Schools should never be changed?
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Enrollment
595
Elementary
DISTRICT 461 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TWIN CITIES INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS·NCES 270018905160
Twin Cities International Schools
277 12TH AVE N, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55401 · (612) 821-6470 · Hennepin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL595 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 46% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.4:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
591 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 79 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 107 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 110 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (110).
Student demographics
0%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 1% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Twin Cities International Schools→MN International Middle Chr School
Based on grade levels within Twin Cities International Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
28.5%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
34.5%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
25.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
11.7%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 12% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 14 points, placing it in Minnesota's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Twin Cities International Schools
Twin Cities International Schools's state test result (25.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Cities International Schools this school | 595 | 99.3% | 25.5% |
| SET Academy Elementary MINNEAPOLIS | 463 | 96.5% | 42.2% |
| HGA Elementary SAINT PAUL | 525 | 94.3% | 38.6% |
| Midway Star Academy SAINT PAUL | 393 | 99.7% | 25.0% |
| Best Academy MINNEAPOLIS | 508 | 92.5% | 20.1% |
| Universal Academy Elementary MINNEAPOLIS | 411 | 92.7% | 43.0% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Twin Cities International Schools ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Hennepin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.5% | #713 of 844 | #115 of 169 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #641 of 844 | #99 of 169 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.5% | #720 of 844 | #119 of 169 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 595 | #169 of 1,130 | #47 of 206 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #556 of 769 | #110 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 0.3% | #796 of 796 | #165 of 165 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #6 of 942 | #3 of 183 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
595
+19 (+3%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 18.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 595 | 39.3 | 15.1:1 | 99% (591) |
| 2023-24 | 622 | 30.3 | 20.5:1 | 100% (619) |
| 2022-23 | 606 | 42.6 | 14.2:1 | 99% (597) |
| 2020-21 | 576 | 32 | 18.0:1 | 97% (556) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Twin Cities International Schools.
About Twin Cities International Schools
Twin Cities International Schools is classified as an elementary school. It is located in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota. The school has 595 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in Minnesota average about 344 students, which makes this school 73% larger than average.
Twin Cities International Schools is its own local education agency in federal data.
Roughly 100% of students at Twin Cities International Schools are Black. County-wide, 13% of Hennepin County residents are Black. The diversity index for Twin Cities International Schools is 0%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Twin Cities International Schools reported 39.3 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 15.1:1. Elementary schools in Minnesota average 13.7:1, 1.4 fewer students per teacher than here. There are 591 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 99% of enrollment. The rate at public schools in Hennepin County averages 43%, lower than here.
On the allk12 Grade, Twin Cities International Schools lands at B-, ahead of 46% of Minnesota public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Twin Cities International Schools would score about 11.7%. It scores 25.5%, a top-10% result among Minnesota schools on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Hennepin County show that median household income comes to about $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hennepin County counts 496 public schools with about 177,509 students.
The closest school to Twin Cities International Schools is MN International Middle Chr School, located less than a tenth of a mile away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Twin Cities International Schools. On proficiency, Twin Cities International Schools is behind the 31.5% nearby average, ranking 3rd of 5.
NCES assigns Twin Cities International Schools the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. The school is a charter school, funded with public money and operated under a charter agreement.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Twin Cities International Schools had a net gain of 19 students, or 3%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 18.0 to 15.1 over 4 years.
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Hennepin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,269,496
Census ACS
Median income
$97,653
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
496
177,509 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Twin Cities International Schools
- MN International Middle Chr SchoolMiddle · 326 students
Other schools in MINNEAPOLIS
- Washburn HighHigh · 1,521 students
- South HighHigh · 1,257 students
- Southwest HighHigh · 1,195 students
- Roosevelt HighHigh · 1,148 students
- Andersen MiddleMiddle · 1,052 students
- Justice Page MiddleMiddle · 1,020 students
Nearby schools
- MN International Middle Chr School0.0 mi · 326
- Online SET Academy0.4 mi · 114
- Metro 2 Online0.4 mi · 373
- Metro College Prep0.4 mi · 585
- SET Academy Middle0.4 mi · 255
- SET Academy Elementary0.4 mi · 463
Frequently asked questions
About Twin Cities International SchoolsHow many students attend Twin Cities International Schools?
Twin Cities International Schools enrolls approximately 595 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Twin Cities International Schools serve?
Twin Cities International Schools serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Twin Cities International Schools?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Twin Cities International Schools is approximately 15.1:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Twin Cities International Schools?
At Twin Cities International Schools, the student body is approximately 0% Hispanic, 100% Black.
Is Twin Cities International Schools public or private?
Twin Cities International Schools is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Twin Cities International Schools.
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