The top reported proficiency rate is 36% in Science. The lowest is 22% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Nasha Shkola Charter School
Nasha Shkola Charter School is a small, single-building charter school in Brooklyn Park serving kindergarten through eighth grade. The school enrolls just over a hundred students, a size that yields small class groups, especially in the upper grades where a single student may be the entire class. The student body is almost entirely white, and a substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. This is a regular public charter school, which means it operates independently of the local district while remaining publicly funded.
The school's academic picture on the 2024-25 state assessments varies sharply by grade. In math, third graders demonstrated strength, with most students meeting the state proficiency standard. Fourth grade was a step lower, and fifth grade sat around the midpoint. By sixth, seventh, and eighth grade, no student tested as proficient, though the number of students in those grades is very small, so a single student's result carries outsized weight. In English language arts, third and fifth graders hit the midpoint, with roughly half proficient; fourth graders were below that mark. At sixth, seventh, and eighth grade, the same pattern of no proficiency appeared, and again the small group size is important context. Science results are reported only for fifth grade, where about a third of students met the bar, and eighth-grade science results were suppressed because too few students tested. When averaged together across all tested subjects and grades, the school's proficiency index sits just above the midpoint among the 63 districts that had data in Hennepin County. The school has only a single year of state assessment data in the record, so there is no trend to compare against. That single year is from an assessment year in which both the test name and science cut scores changed, which a parent may want to look into further with the school to understand how comparability was handled.
The school has no high school grades, so there is no graduation rate. Chronic absenteeism data was not available. Data on students with individualized education programs and English learners was also absent from the record, and a family with a child who receives those services should confirm directly with the school how support is structured.
Brooklyn Park is a large, predominantly car-oriented suburb with no walkable downtown core. The residential landscape is a mix of older neighborhoods and newer developments north of 85th Avenue, where land was developed later. The city has miles of trails and dozens of parks, but strip-mall commercial nodes and major highways shape daily life more than a central civic square. Students in Brooklyn Park are served by three different school districts depending on their address, which means that a family living here may have siblings in different systems if they live on different sides of attendance boundaries. Nasha Shkola as a charter school draws from a wider area than any single district boundary, so families from across the city are eligible to apply, but transportation and enrollment logistics need to be managed separately.
The school itself, as a single-building charter operating as its own district, does not have a parent district with recent structural or leadership changes to report. It received a state-level high-quality charter recognition in 2022, which is an award rather than an operational change. The housing market in the neighborhood around the school shows home values roughly in line with the state average, and rents have been rising, consistent with the broader metro area.
This school fits a family looking for a small, K-8 setting where class sizes shrink to very small in the upper grades, and where the instructional approach is shaped by the school's own charter rather than a district central office. A parent considering the school will want to ask how instruction is designed for the grades where state numbers show students struggling, and how the school ensures academic momentum for the tiny cohort in middle school. A parent whose child is entering kindergarten or first grade sees a different academic starting point than one whose child would be entering sixth grade, and the difference matters for how the school meets their child.
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