Twin Lakes STEM Academy

Located at 6201 NOBLE AVE N, in BROOKLYN PARK, Minnesota, Twin Lakes STEM Academy is a small elementary-level community that works with 217 students (grades K through 7), overseen by Twin Lakes STEM Academy. That puts it 37% smaller than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Twin Lakes STEM Academy is a school of Twin Lakes STEM Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, Twin Lakes STEM Academy logs that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 5% Hispanic, 2% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the resource side, On paper, Twin Lakes STEM Academy has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. That figure is tighter 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. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Twin Lakes STEM Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 11.8%, the actual is 17.1%, a residual of +5.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate median household income runs about $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which Twin Lakes STEM Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: GARDEN CITY ELEMENTARY, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Twin Lakes STEM Academy at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 20.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. As a public charter, Twin Lakes STEM Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 35%: 161 students in 2018 compared to 217 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 14% to 2% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 32.2:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Twin Lakes STEM Academy community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.