Nov 7, 2019

Updated MPS School Profiles with 2019 Data >>>>> Elementary (PreK-8) Schools, Loring through Windom


There are forty-three (43) PreK-8 schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Here is the profile for Loring Elementary:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 

Loring Elementary School                   Principal >>>>>           Ryan Gibbs

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 54%         43%        43%        39%        37%       41%

 

                                (201)      (192)      (189)     (180)     (181)      (183)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 45%         45%        40%        38%        40%       41%

 

                                (201)      (191)      (189)     (180)     (181)     (183)

                                 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 27%         37%        36%        32%        35%       23%

 

                                (63)         (63)       (58)        (53)       (54)       (50)

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       3%                                      4%

African American                    39%                                     36%

Asian American                                       12%                                       6%

Hispanic American                 11%                                     20%

White American                     35%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      16%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   68%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                   14%                                     14%

         Education Services

 

Contact Information

 

2600 34th Avenue North

Minneapolis  MN  55410

Grades PreK-5

Principal:  Ryan Gibbs

Hours:  8:40 AM-3:10 PM

Phone:  612-668-2060

FAX:       612-668-2070


Website:  loring.mpls.k12.mn.us

 

There are forty-three (43) PreK-8 schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Here is the profile for Lucy Craft Laney Community School:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 

Lucy Laney Elementary School          Principal >>>>>           Mauri Friestleben/Lisa Pawelak

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 13%         13%        24%        27%        28%      29%

 

                                (333)      (363)      (218)     (207)     (192)     (200)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                  9%         10%         13%        17%        21%       24%

 

                                (334)      (368)      (218)     (207)     (195)     (205)

                                 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                  6%          5%           8%         17%        14%       17%

 

                                (105)    (118)       (64)       (71)        (65)       (66)

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       3%                                      4%

African American                    88%                                     36%

Asian American                                         2%                                       6%

Hispanic American                   2%                                     20%

White American                       5%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      14%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   97%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                   18%                                     14

 

Hours:  9:40 AM-4:10 PM

 

Principal:  Mauri Melander 

Phone:  612-668-2200

FAX:       612-668-2210


Website:  lucylaney.mpls.k12.mn.us

 

There are forty-three (43) PreK-8 schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Here is the profile for Lyndale Elementary:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 

Lyndale Elementary School         Principal >>>>>                  Mark Stauduhar

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 55%         55%        47%        42%        44%      46%

 

                             (241)         (257)      (237)      (236)      (227)     (230)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                  39%        41%        40%        46%        44%       48%

 

                             (236)         (245)      (240)      (232)      (227)     (230)

 

                                 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 37%         27%       49%       44%       41%          33%

 

                                (68)        (82)       (87)        (66)        (74)      (33%)

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       1%                                      4%

African American                    56%                                     36%

Asian American                                         3%                                       6%

Hispanic American                   4%                                     20%

White American                     26%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      10%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   70%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                   11%                                     14%

         Education Services

 

Contact Information

 

312 West 34th Sreet

Minneapolis  MN  55408

Grades PreK-5

Principal:  Mark Standuhar

Hours:  8:40 AM-3:10 PM

Phone:  612-668-4000

FAX:       612-668-4010


Website:  lyndale.mpls.k12.mn.us

 

There are forty-three (43) PreK-8 schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Here is the profile for Marcy Open:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 

Marcy Open  Elementary School               Principal >>>>>                  Donna Andrews

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 57%         50%        51%        47%        45%      43%

 

                             (434)         (450)      (481)      (477)      (498)     (460)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                  47%        49%        51%        51%        48%      48%

 

                                (441)      (443)     (482)     (464)     (499)     (460)

                                 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 44%         46%       48%       40%       39%          38%

 

                                (129)     (162)      (143)     (144)     (175)     (145)

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       3%                                      4%

African American                    34%                                     36%

Asian American                                         6%                                       6%

Hispanic American                   9%                                     20%

White American                     48%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      16%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   52%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                   10%                                     14%

         Education Services

 

Contact Information

 

415 4th Avenue NE

Minneapolis  MN  55413

Grades K-8

Principal:  Donna Andrews

Hours:  8:40 AM-3:10 PM

Phone:  612-668-1020

FAX:       612-668-1030


Website:  marcy.mpls.k12.mn.us

 

Here is the profile for Nellie Stone Johnson Community School:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 

Nellie Stone Johnson Elementary School     Principal >>>>>  Amy Luehmann

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 20%         26%        41%        33%        28%       26%

 

                                (474)      (465)      (256)     (225)     (205)     (175)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 16%         19%        23%        23%        30%       25%

 

                                (482)      (457)      (255)     (222)     (206)     (178)

                                 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                  3%          9%         15%       29%      26%       32%

 

                                (149)      (150)       (92)       (66)      (76)        (59)

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       2%                                      4%

African American                    56%                                     36%

Asian American                                         4%                                       6%

Hispanic American                 36%                                     20%

White American                       2%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      34%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   96%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                   13%                                     14%

         Education Services

 

Contact Information

 

807 27th Avenue North

Minneapolis  MN  55411

Grades PreK-5

Principal:  Amy Luehmann

Hours:  8:05 AM-2:35 PM

Phone:  612-668-2930

FAX:       612-668-2940


Website:  nsj.mpls.k12.mn.us

 

There are forty-three (43) PreK-8 schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Here is the profile for Northrup Community School:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 

Northrup Elementary School             Principal >>>>>           Kelly Woods

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 75%         76%        73%        72%        67%

 

                                (189)      (216)      (229)     (265)     (243)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 65%         63%        69%        71%        71%

 

                                (188)      (215)      (230)     (265)     (244)

                                 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018

 

                                 67%        64%        63%       65%      67% 

 

                                (52)        (52)        (65)       (88)       (76)   

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       3%                                      4%

African American                    13%                                     36%

Asian American                                         4%                                       6%

Hispanic American                 14%                                     20%

White American                     66%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      10%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   33%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                   10%                                     14%

         Education Services

 

Contact Information

 

4315 31st Avenue South

Minneapolis  MN  55406

Grades K-5

Principal:  Kelly Woods

Hours:  9:35 AM-4:05 PM

Phone:  612-668-4520

FAX:       612-668-4530


Website:  northrup.mpls.k12.mn.us

 

There are forty-three (43) PreK-8 schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Here is the profile for Pillsbury Community School:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 55%         58%        45%        52%        41%       43%

 

                                (285)      (266)      (255)     (212)     (177)      (147)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 37%         33%        32%        38%        32%       37%

 

                                (283)      (266)      (249)     (213)     (183)      (44)

                                 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 37%        30%        23%       31%      21%       27%

 

                                (86)        (82)        (82)       (67)       (67)        (44)

 

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       3%                                      4%

African American                    50%                                     36%

Asian American                                         3%                                       6%

Hispanic American                 29%                                     20%

White American                     15%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      44%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   83%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                   14%                                     14%

         Education Services

 

Contact Information

 

2250 Garfield Avenue NE

Minneapolis  MN  55418

Grades PreK-5

Principal:  Jessica Skowrenek

Hours:  7:30 AM-2:00 PM

Phone:  612-668-1530

FAX:       612-668-1540


Website:  pillsbury.mpls.k12.mn.us

 

There are forty-three (43) PreK-8 schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Here is the profile for Pratt Elementary:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 3%           54%        55%        57%        53%      43%

 

                                (106)      (116)      (128)     (125)     (127)     (129)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 34%         47%        50%        37%        43%      43%

 

                                (90)        (117)      (128)     (125)     (127)     (129)

                                 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 21%        46%        47%       39%      38%       18%

 

                                (29)        (26)        (47)       (38)       (37)         (42)

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       6%                                      4%

African American                    56%                                     36%

Asian American                                         4%                                       6%

Hispanic American                   6%                                     20%

White American                     28%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      58%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   95%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                   13%                                     14%

         Education Services

 

Contact Information

 

66 Malcolm SE

Minneapolis  MN  55414

Grades PreK-5

Principal:  Nancy Vague

Hours:  9:10 AM-3:40 PM

Phone:  612-668-1122

FAX:       612-668-1110


Website:  pratt.mpls.k12.mn.us

 

There are forty-three (43) PreK-8 schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Here is the profile for Seward Montessori:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 

Seward Elementary School                         Principal >>>>>                  Tammy Goetz

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 49%         46%        44%        37%        37%       35%

 

                                (558)      (555)     (536)     (545)     (541)     (533)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                  54%        51%        48%        41%        48%      48%

 

                                (558)      (555)     (536)     (545)     (541)     (542)

                                 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 53%         42%       43%       40%       33%         29%

 

                                (188)      (171)     (176)     (181)     (174)    (177)

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       3%                                      4%

African American                    47%                                     36%

Asian American                                         5%                                       6%

Hispanic American                   4%                                     20%

White American                     41%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      26%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   54%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                     5%                                     14%

         Education Services

 

Contact Information

 

2309 28th Avenue South

Minneapolis  MN  55406

Grades K-8

Principal:  Tammy Goetz

Hours:  7:30 AM-2:00 PM

Phone:  612-668-4950

FAX:       612-668-4960


Website:  seward.mpls.k12.mn.us

 

There are forty-three (43) PreK-8 schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Here is the profile for Sheridan Community School:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019

 

Sheridan Elementary School                      Principal >>>>>                  Yaijaira Guzman Carrero

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 31%         35%        24%        19%        19%     14%

 

                                (191)      (195)     (209)     (179)     (166)     (85)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                  17%        18%        19%        16%        22%     26%

 

                                (190)      (191)     (207)     (185)     (164)     (90)

 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                -----        -----         -----        -----        -----        21%

 

                                (-----)      (-----)     (-----)     (-----)     (-----)     (33)

 

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       3%                                      4%

African American                    59%                                     36%

Asian American                                         6%                                       6%

Hispanic American                 19%                                     20%

White American                     13%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      18%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   87%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                   20%                                     14%

         Education Services

 

Contact Information

 

1201 University Avenue SE

Minneapolis  MN  55410

Grades PreK-5

Principal:  Yajaira Guzman Carrero

Hours:  9:35 AM-4:05 PM

Phone:  612-668-1130

FAX:       612-668-1140


Website:  sheridan.mpls.k12.mn.us

 

There are forty-three (43) PreK-8 schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Here is the profile for Anne Sullivan Communications School:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 

Sullivan Elementary School                        Principal >>>>>                  Jennifer Hedburg

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 33%         31%         24%        19%       19%       18%

 

                                (397)      (409)      (408)     (434)    (367)     (312)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 25%         24%         24%        20%       21%       27%

 

                                (359)      (364)      (367)     (380)    (366)     (314)

 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                  9%         15%         12%         13%       12%        5%

 

                             (137)         (151)       (115)       (139)    (127)     (91)

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       7%                                      4%

African American                    84%                                     36%

Asian American                                         1%                                       6%

Hispanic American                   5%                                     20%

White American                       3%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      58%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   95%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                   13%                                     14%

         Education Services

 

Contact Information

 

3100 East 28th Street

Minneapolis  MN 

Grades PreK-8

Principal:  Jennifer Hedberg

Hours:  8:40 AM-3:10 PM

Phone:  612-668-5000

FAX:       612-668-5010


Website:  sullivan.mpls.k12.mn.us

 

There are forty-three (43) PreK-8 schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Here is the profile for Waite Park:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 

Waite Park Elementary School                  Principal >>>>>                  Rochelle McGinness

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 60%         68%         64%        69%       61%       60%

 

                                (198)      (203)      (198)     (197)    (196)     (192)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 55%         46%         57%        60%       61%       60%

 

                                (193)      (205)      (197)     (197)    (196)     (192)

 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 48%        49%         44%         56%       53%      59%

 

                               (61)         (63)         (68)         (59)      (62)       (65)

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       3%                                      4%

African American                    23%                                     36%

Asian American                                         2%                                       6%

Hispanic American                 15%                                     20%

White American                     57%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      12%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   55%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                   10%                                     14%

         Education Services

 

Contact Information

 

1800 34th Avenue NE

Minneapolis  MN

Grades PreK-5

Principal:  Rochelle McGinness

Hours:  9:10 AM-3:40 PM

Phone:  612-668-1600

FAX:       612-668-1610


Website:  waitepark.mpls.k12.mn.us

 

There are forty-three (43) PreK-8 schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Here is the profile for Webster Elementary:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 

Webster Elementary School                       Principal >>>>>                  Ginger Davis Kranz

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 -----        -----         42%        -----        46%       38%

 

                              (-----)      (-----)    (24)       (-----)    (53)       (89)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 -----        -----         33%        -----        38%     48%

 

                                (-----)    (-----)    (24)       (-----)   (53)      (90)

 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 -----        -----         -----        -----        -----      33%

 

                                (-----)    (-----)     (-----)    (-----)    (-----)   (24)

 

 

(Webster reopened for the 2016-2017 academic year after several years of closure)

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       6%                                      4%

African American                    31%                                     36%

Asian American                                         6%                                       6%

Hispanic American                 13%                                     20%

White American                     42%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      10%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   68%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                   10%                                     14%

         Education Services

 

Contact Information

 

425 5th Street NE

Minneapolis  MN  55413

Grades PreK-4

Principal:  Ginger Davis Kranz

Hours:  8:05 AM-2:35 PM

Phone:  612-668-1210

FAX:       612-668-1220


Website:  webster.mpls.k12.mn.us

 

There are forty-three (43) PreK-8 schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Here is the profile for Whittier International:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 

Whittier Elementary School                       Principal >>>>>                  Lauri Lamberty

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 51%         43%        38%        31%        32%      22%

 

                                (298)      (305)     (302)     (283)     (262)     (244)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                  43%        40%        38%        33%        36%      33%

 

                                (291)      (299)     (297)     (288)     (262)     (250)

                                 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 26%         40%       37%       19%       34%         22%

 

                                (68)         (93)       (84)       (103)     (83)      (79)

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       2%                                      4%

African American                    41%                                     36%

Asian American                                         2%                                       6%

Hispanic American                 30%                                     20%

White American                     25%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      16%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   52%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                   10%                                     14%

         Education Services

 

Contact Information

 

315 West 26th Street

Minneapolis  MN  55404

Grades K-5

Principal:  Laurie Lamberty

Hours:  9:40 AM-4:10 PM

Phone:  612-668-4170

FAX:       612-668-4180


Website:  whittier.mpls.k12.mn.us

 

There are forty-three (43) PreK-8 schools in the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Here is the profile for Windom Spanish Dual Immersion:


Academic Performance

 

Percentage of Students Proficient on the

Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs),

Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

 

Windom Elementary School                       Principal >>>>>                  Jim Clark

 

Math                     2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 58%         61%        67%        57%        57%      58%

 

                                (166)      (181)     (212)     (246)     (260)     (266)

                                                                               

Reading               2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                  45%        53%        59%        53%        53%      5%

 

                                (164)      (180)     (211)     (247)     (262)     (268)

                                 

Science                                2014       2015       2016      2017      2018     2019

 

                                 54%         43%       65%       47%       50%          45%

 

                                (46)         (46)       (51)       (74)        (80)      (78)

 

Student Population

 

Enrollment:  not tabulated as yet by MPS officials

 

                                                Percentage of                   Percentage of

                                                Enrollment at Site           Enrollment

Districtwide

 

Native American                       0%                                      4%

African American                      5%                                     36%

Asian American                                         1%                                       6%

Hispanic American                 53%                                     20%

White American                     41%                                     34%

 

English Learners                      36%                                     24%

Receiving Free or                   45%                                     63%

         Reduced Price Lunch

Receiving Special                     7%                                     14%

         Education Services

 

Contact Information

 

5821 Wentworth Avenue South

Minneapolis  MN  55419

Grades PreK-5

Principal:  James Clark

Hours:  7:30 AM-2:00 PM

Phone:  612-668-3370

FAX:       612-668-3380


Website:  windom.mpls.k12.mn.us
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Importance of Ten-Article Series Analyzing the Ignorance, Corruption, and State of Denial that Abides on the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education


My five-year investigation of the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) yields the following most fundamental observation:

 

While the Financial Division and the Information Technology Department are especially effective facets of MPS and other nonacademic departments and divisions of MPS are good to excellent, every component and every key human actor in the academic division operates with ineluctable incompetence. 

 

These offenders include the following:

 

>>>>>    Superintendent Ed Graff  

>>>>>    Department of Teaching and Learning, now led by Aimee Fearing

>>>>>    Associate Superintendents, now comprised of Shawn Harris-Berry, LaShawn Ray, Ron Wagner, and Brian Zambreno

>>>>>    Office of Black Male Achievement led by Michael Walker

>>>>>    Department of Indian Education led by Jennifer Rose Simon

>>>>>    Most building principals

>>>>>    Most classroom teachers, protected by the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers led by Michelle Wiese

>>>>>    MPS Board of Education that now includes District #1 Member Jenny Arneson, District #2 Member KerryJo Felder, District #3 Member Siad Ali, District #4 Member Bob Walser, District #5 Member Nelson Inz, District #6 Member Ira Jourdain, and At-Large members Kim Caprini, Kim Ellison Josh Pauly, and Student Representative Janaan Ahmed  

 

When one considers the breadth and depth of incompetence represented in the above listing of ineffective positions and individuals, one comes to understand the predicament of this school district in delivering a knowledge-intensive, skill-replete education to the students of the Minneapolis Public Schools.  Understand this observation clearly


>>>>>    Not a single person---  not one, got it?---  nary a person, comprendes tu?---  connected in any way to academic decision-making at the Minneapolis Public Schools knows what she or he is doing.

 

Just in case this is not clear, let me repeat this most fundamental of all observations regarding my five-year study of the Minneapolis Public Schools       >>>>>

 

>>>>>     Not a single person connected in any way to academic decision-making at the Minneapolis Public Schools knows what she or he is doing.

 

……………………………………………………………………………………

 

The above salient observation applies abundantly to the members of the MPS Board of Education.

 

In the ten-article series following immediately as you scroll on down this blog, you will read details that follow from the following key denotations  >>>>>           

 

>>>>>    Bob Walser is the worst member of a school board whom I have ever witnessed

>>>>>    Nelson Inz is an especially corrupt political hack

>>>>>    jenny Arneson, Kim Ellison, KerryJo Felder, and Kim Caprini are disasters

>>>>>    Minimal hope resides in Siad Ali, Ira Jourdain, and Josh Pauly

>>>>>    Student representatives Noah Branch, Shaadia Munye, Gabe Spinks, Ben Jaeger, and current student representative Janaan Ahmed have been woefully ineffective

 

Locus of ultimate decision-making at any locally centralized school district resides in a murky zone in which the superintendent and school board drift in and out.

 

Neither MPS Superintendent Ed Graff nor the members of the MPS Board of Education are capable of making necessary decisions for the impartation of a knowledge-intensive, skill-replete education to the long-waiting students of the Minneapolis Public Schools.

 

Details on MPS Board of Education incompetence are found abundantly in the immediately succeeding articles as you scroll on down this blog     >>>>>                                
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Nov 4, 2019

Article #10 on the Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education >>>>> Student Representative Janaan Ahmed >>>>> One Major Bright Moment, But Mostly the Typical Wasted Opportunity


Janaan Ahmed is the current student representative on the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Board of Education.  She officially occupied the position as of the January 2019 board meeting. 

 

Ahmed is the fifth student representative to serve.  In order, with full calendar years beginning each January during which they served given in parentheses, the representatives have been the following:  Noah Branch (2015), Shaadia Munye (2016), Gabriel Spinks (2017), Ben Jaeger (2018), and Janaan Ahmed (2019).  Three of the student representatives (Branch, Munye, Ahmed) have been students at Henry High School;  Spinks was a student at Edison High School, Jaeger at Roosevelt High School.

 

I have the same high expectations of these young people that I do for my students in the New Salem Educational Initiative.  Each of the representatives has ultimately been disappointing to me as potential agents of change who have not seized the moment.  These students all attend high schools at which the median ACT score is approximately 16 (at the 20th percentile by national standards);  at which major modes of teaching are to distribute packets, show videos, group students together for projects in the absence of contextualizing information, or send them singly to computers to seek information on topics for which they similarly have little background knowledge;  where teacher burnout leads to long-term substitutes with tangential subject area expertise;  and from which students graduate with insubstantial knowledge and skill sets and often need remedial coursework if attending colleges or universities.

 

And yet not one of these students has articulated the grave problems at her or his high school.  Some had their moments of eloquence but to no ultimate effect.  Jaeger in particular presented himself as an advocate for those student groups for which academic achievement has lagged;  he did not, however, seem to grasp the fundamental reasons for the lag or to have any compelling suggestions for improved achievement.

 

Thus, Ahmed has been the typical unproductive student representative, rather than bearing particular culpability.

 

Ahmed’s most consistent point of advocacy has been to call for the change of name for Patrick Henry High School, on the grounds that Henry was a slaveowner.  This appeal jibes with the temper of our times, in which we change names while leaving historically mistreated groups still suffering from various ongoing gaps in social wellbeing.  The appeal in this case is also simplistic, as are most such entreaties.  If one considers the American Revolution a positive occurrence (and there were Loyalists who did not, with Native Americans and African Americans having internally opposing views), then Henry was one of the most forceful.   Further, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson each famously owned more slaves than did Henry.  As a leftist revolutionary, I view the hippy dippy liberal tendency to launch attacks on people out of historical context while failing to address injustices today unseemly and frequently infuriating.    

 

Ahmed did have one bright moment, at a recent meeting of the MPS Board of Education Committee of the Whole.  Her incisive comment came when the subject of new ethnic studies courses came up.  At issue was whether to offer these new courses as electives or as permissible replacements for core subjects such as American history.  Ahmed said that she has a passion for ethnic studies but that ethnic specific courses would be unnecessary if subjects such as United States history were taught as they should be, with that history as necessarily entailing the participation of multiple ethnicities in all past events.    

 

Janaan Ahmed had is an apparently very bright young woman whose ability and capacity for public leadership and engagement will stand her in good stead during her postsecondary life.

 

She has, though, contributed very little to a regular board membership of adults who are variously ignorant, corrupt, or in denial.  Those adults had great need of a an incisive, oppositional student force that Ahmed---  like her predecessors---  did not provide.   

 

 
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