Quick Statistics About New Century School
School Demographics
- Type of School: Preschool-12 Charter School
- Location: Saint Paul, MN
- Authorizer: Volunteers of America-Minnesota (VOA-MN)
- Academic Schedule: Traditional (August – June)
- Curriculum Focus: STEM
- Teacher to Student Ratio: 24:1 (2025)
Achievements
- NCS Online District Of Distinction Award (2024-2025)
- Engineering Machine and Design Contest Design Award, 1st Place, 4th Place (Minnesota
State University, Mankato) (April, 2025) - Bilingual Seal Awards (Gold and World Language Proficiency)
- Engineering Machine Design Contest Regional Contest 4th Place (Minnesota State
University, Mankato), (April, 2024) - Governance Award – VOA School Network (June 2024)
- F.R. Bigelow Foundation Grant Recipient (2024)
- Grow-Your-Own (GYOG) Teacher Pipeline Grant recipient (2024)
- Engineering Machine Design Contest Regional Contest 2nd Place (Minnesota State
University), (March 2023) - Awards of Excellence recipient in both Academic and Finance – VOA School Network
(2023) - High Quality Charter School – MDE (February 2022)
- Finance Award – VOA School Network (June 2021)
- Engineering Machine Design Contest Champions (May 2021)
- School Sparrow’s Top 9 Elementary Schools (July 2020)
- Beating the Odds School (Star Tribune, 2019)
- Engineering Awards (Engineering Machine Design Contest, Minnesota State University, 2019)
- ABOVE & BEYOND AWARD, 3rd Place
- Authorizer Award (2018): Most improved school in Reading, Math, and overall Academic Work
- Innovative Design Award (Minnesota Regional Tournament, First Lego League, 2019-2020)
- Judges Award (Minnesota Regional Tournament, First Lego League, 2019-2020)
- PBIS Cohort Award (State of Minnesota and Minnesota Department of Education, 2018-2020)
- School Finance Award (2019, 2018, 2017): MN Department of Education
- Bush Foundation grant Award (2019)
- North Star Report: Recognized for being in the top 5% of schools on one of the multiple measures of success (2018)