Charter agency · Hennepin County
Best Academy, MN: schools, enrollment and spending
Best Academy runs 4 public schools with 790 students in grades K to 8. Its ratio of 18.8 students per teacher is 3.6 higher than the Minnesota figure of 15.2.Listed in NCES data as "BEST ACADEMY".
At a glance
- Schools
- 4
- Students
- 790
- Teachers (FTE)
- 42
- Students per teacher
- 18.8
- MN: 15.2 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 1300 Olson Memorial Hwy, Minneapolis, MN 55411
- Phone
- (612)876-4105
- County
- Hennepin County
- Locale
- City: Large
- Grades offered
- K to 8
- Agency type
- Charter agency
- NCES district ID
- 2700309
- State district ID
- MN-074192
- Total staff (FTE)
- 138
- School counselors (FTE)
- 0.0
- School administrators (FTE)
- 0.0
- Charter schools
- 4
Students per teacher compared
This district18.8
Minnesota15.2
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (715), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $14.2 million
- Federal revenue
- $1.2 million
- State revenue
- $12.6 million
- Local revenue
- $487,000
- Total spending
- $14.7 million
- Spending per pupil
- $20,557
- Salaries
- $7.0 million47.6% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $1.6 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 8.3%
- State: 88.2%
- Local: 3.4%
Minnesota overall
- Federal: 9.4%
- State: 63.0%
- Local: 27.6%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$20,557
Minnesota$17,873
United States$16,826
Schools in Best Academy
By level: 4 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Best AcademyCEP schoolCharter | Elementary | K to 8 | 508 | 15.4 |
| Best Academy - Cedar RiversideCharter | Elementary | K to 2 | 0 | |
| Mastery SchoolCharter | Elementary | K to 5 | 0 | |
| Wakanda Virtual AcademyCharter | Elementary | K to 8 | 282 | 35.2 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Hennepin County
- Minneapolis Public School District 29,928 students
- Osseo Public School District 21,138 students
- Wayzata Public School District 12,951 students
- Minnetonka Public School District 11,323 students
- Robbinsdale Public School District 10,810 students
- Bloomington Public Schools 10,442 students
- Eden Prairie Public School District 9,292 students
- Edina Public School District 8,794 students
- Hopkins Public School District 7,129 students
- Minnesota Transitions Charter Sch 5,682 students
- St. Louis Park Public School Dist. 4,446 students
- Richfield Public School District 4,094 students
- Orono Public School District 2,987 students
- Westonka Public School District 2,442 students
- Brooklyn Center Community Schools 2,174 students
More in Minnesota
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.