At $15,523 per pupil, Quantum Steam Academy Charter ranks #184 of 509 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending (Minnesota districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
155
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$15,523
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Quantum Steam Academy Charter operates 2 public schools serving 155 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Ramsey County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,523 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 509 Minnesota districts by per-pupil spending. See how Minnesota compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is , 71.0% state, and 29.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 128:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 0.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% African American across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 21.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (155 to 188 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 5.5 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $2,690,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 48.7% went to instruction, 35.4% to support services, and 8.3% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Quantum Steam Academy Elementary accounts for 64.0% of all Quantum Steam Academy Charter student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Quantum Steam Academy Charter a distant remainder — means Quantum Steam Academy Charter-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Quantum Steam Academy Charter reports 96.1% free-lunch eligibility
The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Quantum Steam Academy Charter student-counselor ratio is 128:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Quantum Steam Academy Charter chronic absenteeism rate is 0.8% — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Comparisons are relative to Quantum Steam Academy Charter's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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