Ubah Academy
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 13% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Ubah Academy
Ubah Academy is one of the moderately sized 9-12 campuss in HOPKINS, Minnesota, one of the schools within Ubah Academy, with 321 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.
Ubah Academy sits inside Ubah Academy, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
On the student-mix side, Ubah Academy logs that 100% 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.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Ubah Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 13.0%, the actual is 22.6%, a residual of +9.6 points.
Around the school, census data for Hennepin County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Ubah Academy is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).
Nearest neighbor: ALICE SMITH ELEMENTARY, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ubah Academy comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area. As a public charter, Ubah Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Five-year trend. Ubah Academy's enrollment has edged up 7% since 2018, when it stood at 299 (now 321). The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.
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