The top reported proficiency rate is 10% in English language arts. The lowest is 0% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Scitech Academy Middle
SciTech Academy Middle was a charter school serving middle school grades in Richfield, Minnesota, and it is now closed. That fact shapes everything. The school no longer enrolls students, and any academic record it has is historical. For the family or resident coming across this page today, the immediate takeaway is that this school is not an option you can act on.
The school was a charter within the SciTech Academy Charter School district, a single-school authorizing arrangement. It served only a middle school grade band. Richfield itself is a dense inner-ring suburb of Minneapolis, home to Best Buy’s corporate headquarters and a mix of postwar residential neighborhoods and retail corridors like Cedar Point Commons. The city has about a certain number of residents, with housing that runs from single-family homes to apartments and senior living. The civic feel is what the city calls an urban hometown, with a park system that includes Wood Lake Nature Center, an ice arena, and an outdoor pool. Housing values in the zip code covering the school are around the national average, and rents are similarly positioned, making Richfield a moderately priced entry point into the Minneapolis metro area for families.
The district brief for SciTech Academy Charter School turned up no lasting parent-relevant changes from recent years, which aligns with the school’s closed status. The data on enrollment and student demographics for SciTech Academy Middle is missing entirely, so there is no picture of how many students attended, their racial or ethnic background, or the share who qualified for free or reduced-price lunch, received special education services, or were English learners. That gap is not unusual for a closed school; records may have been archived or not carried forward.
What is available is state assessment data from the 2022-23 school year, the last year of operation for which results were reported. In mathematics, across sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, the school reported a zero percent proficiency rate. That means none of the students tested scored at Levels 3 or 4, the state’s definition of proficient. In reading, the results were a bit higher but still low: small single-digit percentages of students met proficiency in each grade, with the highest being eighth grade at a modest share. In eighth-grade science, again no students reached proficiency. The testing participation rate was reported at one hundred percent, so it was not a case of students opting out. Averagescale scores increased across math grades, which suggests students were gaining some skills even if they were not crossing the proficiency bar, but the overall picture is of a school where academic performance was far below typical state levels. A parent looking at this data would want to understand what instructional model and student population the school served, but with no enrollment or demographic data available, that context is missing.
The school is closed. The assessment results are historical, not current. For anyone researching Richfield’s current school options, the relevant entities are the city’s public school district, Richfield Public Schools, which operates a separate middle school and high school, and any other active charter or private schools in the area. SciTech Academy Middle does not represent a current pathway.
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