Ryan Strack
(Senior Executive Officer)
April May July September May
2025 2025 2025 2025 2026
$132,225 $149,636 $149,636 $210,865 $210,865
Scott Weber
(Executive Director, Human Services)
April May July September May
2025 2025 2025 2025 2026
$143,389 $169,739 $169,739 $175,717 $175,717
Lisa
Sayles-Adams
(Superintendent)
April
May
July September May
2025
2025
2025 2025
2026
$266,000 $266,000 $266,000
$266,000 $271,000
Ty
Thompson
(Deputy Superintendent)
April
May
July September May
2025
2025
2025 2025
2026
$226,852 $226,852 $226,852
$232,478 $232,478
Jamie Jonassen
(Superintendent)
April
May
July September May
2025
2025
2025 2025
2026
$207,295 $207,295 $207,295
$216,136 $216,136
Tom
Parent
(Senior Operations
Officer)
April
May
July September May
2025
2025
2025 2025
2026
$201,270 $201,270 $201,270
$210,865 $210,865
Alicia
Miller
(Senior
Human Resources Officer)
April
May
July September May
2025
2025
2025 2025
2026
$179,000 $183,896 $183,896
$200,821 $200,821
Donnie Belcher
(Executive
Director, Communications)
April
May
July September May
2025
2025
2025 2025
2026
$138,000 $142,385 $142,385
$169,148 $170,790
Lisa
Sayles-Adams
(Superintendent)
April
May
July September May
2025
2025
2025 2025
2026
$266,000 $266,000 $266,000
$266,000 $271,000
Ryan Strack
(Senior
Executive Officer)
April
May
July September May
2025
2025
2025 2025
2026
$132,225 $149,636 $149,636
$210,865 $210,865
Scott
Weber
(Executive
Director, Human Services)
April
May
July September May
2025
2025
2025 2025
2026
$143,389 $169,739 $169,739
$175,717 $175,717
Kimberly
Haynes
(Superintendent)
April
May
July September May
2025
2025
2025 2025
2026
$117,686 $126,736 $126,736
$129,904 $129,904
Volume XIII, No. 4
October 2026
Journal of the K-12 Revolution:
Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis Public Schools Academic Proficiency Rates
As Measured By Spring 2026
Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments
(MCAs)
A Five-Article Series
A Publication of the New Salem Educational Initiative
Gary Marvin Davison, Editor
Minneapolis Public Schools Academic Proficiency Rates
As Measured By
Spring 2026 Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments
A Five-Article Series
Gary Marvin Davison
New Salem Educational Initiative
Copyright © 2026
Contents
Introduction
Article #1
Minneapolis Public Schools Student Proficiency Rates for Year Ending in 2026 as Measured by Spring 2026 Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs), Overall and Disaggregated by Ethnicity
Article #2
Minneapolis Public Schools Student Proficiency Rates for Academic Years Ending in 2014 through 2026 as Measured by Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs), Overall and Disaggregated by Ethnicity
Article #3
Minneapolis Public Schools Student Proficiency Rates for Academic Year Ending in 2026, as Measured by Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs): Elementary Schools
Article #4
Minneapolis Public Schools Student Proficiency Rates for Academic Year Ending in 2026, as Measured by Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs): Middle & K-8 Schools
Article #5
Minneapolis Public Schools Student Proficiency Rates for Academic Year Ending in 2026, as Measured by Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs): High Schools
The district of the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) is academically disastrous and has been for many decades, for which the data given in this edition of Journal of the K-12 Revolution: Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota are illustrative.
For a brief phase encompassing August 2022 through January 2024, the administration of Interim Superintendent Rochell Cox and Senior Academic Officer Aimee Fearing launched several initiatives--- Tutoring Triads, online ACT tutoring, and online high dosage tutoring--- intended to address directly the key academic vexations that had long haunted the district. Cox and Fearing were also moving deliberately to implement knowledge-intensive curriculum and to train teachers capable of imparting such a curriculum.
But the current administration of Superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams, whose tenure began in February 2024, abandoned all of those promising initiatives. The new reading curricula of the University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI) and Arts & Letters were introduced in response to State of Minnesota READ Act stipulations regarding the “Science of Reading,” but in the absence of the aggressive initiatives of reference and knowledge-intensive teacher training, the Sayles-Adams administration indicates little comprehension of the program necessary to advance academics in the Minneapolis Public Schools.
In the articles below, readers will successively observe Minneapolis Public Schools student academic proficiency rates overall and disaggregated according to ethnicity as measured by the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs) for the academic year ending in 2026; a comparison to that single year with those academic years ending in 2014 through 2025; and then student academic proficiency rates as measured by the MCAs for the academic year ending in 2026 in all MPS elementary schools, middle & K-8 schools, and high schools.
Readers should contemplate the consequences of the loss of momentum achieved during the administration of Interim Superintendent Rochelle Cox (August 2022 through January 2024) and the lack of aggressive attention to academics during the tenure of Superintendent Lisa Sayles-Adams from January 2024 through October 2026.
Minneapolis Public Schools Student Proficiency Rates for Year Ending in 2026 as Measured by Spring 2026 Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs), Overall and Disaggregated by Ethnicity
Given below are academic proficiency rates for all Minneapolis Public Schools students and for student categories disaggregated by ethnicity for academic year 2026:
All
Students
Math Reading Science
37% 42% 22%
African
American
Math Reading Science
10% 16% 4%
American
Indian
14% 21% 9%
Math Reading Science
Hispanic/
Latine
13% 15% 7%
Math Reading Science
Asian
American
30% 32% 18%
Math Reading Science
White
69% 74% 44%
Minneapolis Public Schools Student Proficiency Rates for Academic Years Ending in 2014 through 2026 as Measured by Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs), Overall and Disaggregated by Ethnicity
Given below are academic proficiency rates for all Minneapolis Public Schools students and for student categories disaggregated by ethnicity for academic years 2014 through 2026.
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
All
Students
Math 44% 44% 44% 42% 42% 42% 35% 33% 35% 35% 36% 37%
Reading 42% 42% 43% 43% 45% 47% 40% 42% 41% 40% 41% 42%
Science 33% 36% 35% 34% 34% 36% 36% 33% 31% 32% 23% 22%
Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs)
Student Proficiency Rates
Academic Years Ending in 2014 through 2026
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
African
American
Math 22% 23% 21% 15% 18% 18% 9% 10% 8% 8% 11% 10%
Reading 22% 21% 21% 21% 22% 23% 19% 18% 16% 15% 17% 16%
Science 11% 15% 13% 12% 11% 11% 11% 8% 6% 6% 5% 4%
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
American
Indian
Math 23% 19% 19% 17% 17% 18% 9% 9% 10% 12% 14% 14%
Reading 21% 20% 21% 23% 24% 25% 20% 22% 19% 18% 20% 21%
Science 14% 16% 13% 12% 14% 17% 9% 9% 7% 12% 8% 9%
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Hispanic/
Latine
Math 31% 32% 31% 29% 26% 25% 12% 12% 12% 11% 11% 13%
Reading 22% 21% 21% 21% 22% 23% 19% 18% 16% 12% 14% 15%
Science 17% 18% 21% 19% 17% 16% 10% 11% 9% 8% 6% 7%
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Asian
American
Math 48% 50% 50% 49% 50% 47% 46% 39% 25% 26% 28% 30%
Reading 41% 40% 45% 41% 48% 50% 54% 49% 33% 31% 28% 32%
Science 31% 35% 42% 35% 37% 40% 43% 36% 27% 28% 20% 18%
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
White
Math 77% 78% 78% 77% 77% 75% 62% 61% 65% 68% 68% 69%
Reading 78% 77% 77% 78% 80% 78% 74% 71% 72% 73% 75% 74%
Science 71% 75% 71% 70% 71% 70% 61% 60% 59% 61% 45% 44%
Minneapolis Public Schools Student Proficiency Rates for Academic Year Ending in 2026, as Measured by Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs): Elementary Schools
Given below are academic proficiency rates for all Minneapolis Public Schools students at elementary sites in the district as measured by the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs) for the academic year ending in 2026:
Elementary Schools
Anishinabe
Math Reading Science
8.5% 14.5% 0.0%
(7) (12) (0)
Armatage
Math Reading Science
81.0% 77.5% 54.4%
(116) (166) (104)
Barton
Math Reading Science
59.9% 60.3% 29.0%
(142) (143) (20)
Bethune
Math Reading Science
6.0% 9.3% 2.1%
(7) (11) (1)
Bryn Mawr
Math Reading Science
22.2% 20.3% 4.9%
(42) (38) (3)
Burroughs
Math Reading Science
85.7% 83.9% 64.8%
(191) (187) (146)
Cityview
Math Reading Science
12.0% 6.5% 14.8%
(11) (8) (4)
Dowling
Math Reading Science
55.6% 59.7% 25.5%
(99) (105) (14)
Emerson
Math Reading Science
31.1% 29.0% 21.9%
(75) (70) (16)
Folwell
Math Reading Science
13.6% 11.5% 8.7%
(21) (19) (4)
Field
Math Reading Science
73.9% 71.9% 53.9%
(232) (225) (48)
Green Central
Math Reading Science
44.3% 42.6% 24.4%
(109) (104) (21)
Hall
Math Reading Science
9.3% 12.8% 12.0%
(8) (11) (3)
Hale
N/A
Hiawatha
N/A
Howe
Math Reading Science
68.7% 65.4% 36.1%
(158) (151) (30)
Jenny Lind
Math Reading Science
17.2% 18.4% 3.8%
(15) (16) (1)
Kenny
Math Reading Science
84.9% 80.0% 37.7%
(135) (128) (20)
Kenwood
Math Reading Science
50.3% 50.3% 42.5%
(79) (79) (17)
Lake Harriet Lower
N/A
Lake Harriet Upper
Math Reading Science
86.2% 85.3% 60.7%
(243) (238) (51)
Lake Nokomis Keewaydin
Math Reading Science
51.2% 59.6% 30.5%
(126) (143) (25)
Lake Nokomis Wenonah
N/A
Las Estrellas
Math Reading Science
16.1% 18.9% 13.6%
(23) (27) (6)
Loring
Math Reading Science
21.1% 22.9% 18.6%
(28) (30) (8)
Lucy Laney
Math Reading Science
18.1% 23.7% 7.5%
(32) (42) (4)
Lyndale
Math Reading Science
27.5% 27.4% 8.8%
(52) (52) (5)
Marcy
Math Reading Science
30.2% 38.5% 17.5%
(67) (84) (10)
Nellie Stone Johnson
Math Reading Science
3.6% 8.7% 2.3%
(5) (12) (1)
Northrup
N/A
Pratt
Math Reading Science
19.3% 22.1% 11.1%
(17) (19) (3)
Pillsbury
Math Reading Science
23.4% 24.0% 3.4%
(46) (47) (2)
Seward
Math Reading Science
26.5% 42.9% 16.2%
(70) (114) (11)
Waite Park
Math Reading Science
76.7% 64.5% 53.1%
(92) (78) (17)
Webster
Math Reading Science
6.4% 17.2% 6.1%
(6) (16) (2)
Whittier
Math Reading Science
12.0% 15.2% 6.8%
(30) (38) (6)
Windom
Math Reading Science
61.2% 67.0% 36.1%
(115) (126) (22)
