Original Research by School Decision on St. Cloud Social Justice Academy
St. Cloud Social Justice Academy in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, is a charter school that has closed. It served a single grade, listed as M through M, and was categorized as a regular school, but the state education department lists it as not active, and its lifecycle status indicates closure. For a parent or resident considering this school, the data offers very little to work with because the school is no longer operating, and even when it was open, almost no standard metrics were available.
The school was located at 2719 West Division Street in Saint Cloud, a mid-sized regional center along the Mississippi River about an hour northwest of the Twin Cities. Saint Cloud has a significant university presence with St. Cloud State University, a major hospital system, and a manufacturing base that includes bus production and wood products. The city has seen notable demographic change, with a growing Somali community that represents a substantial share of the local school district enrollment. Housing values in the area are below the state median but close to the national median, and rents have been rising in line with national trends.
Because the school has closed, state assessment results, enrollment data, demographics, and graduation rates are all absent from the record. No information is available on programs offered, course access, discipline, staffing, or attendance. The district brief confirms that St. Cloud Social Justice Academy was a small charter school district, but it found no parent-relevant changes with lasting impact because the school is no longer active.
For a family evaluating this as a current option, there is nothing to evaluate: the school is closed. For someone looking back at the school's history or wondering why so little data exists, the answer is straightforward. It was a small, short-lived charter that opened around 2023 and did not sustain operations long enough to generate the usual public reporting. No test scores were ever reported because the school did not serve tested grades or did not last long enough to produce results. No comparison to other Saint Cloud schools is possible because no academic or demographic figures exist. A parent looking at this school in the past would have needed to contact it directly for any sense of its offerings and student body, but that path is now closed as well. The school has no current enrollment, no staff, and no active programs.
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