North Metro Flex Academy opened in the Fall of 2016 as a K-4 school with 170 students in attendance. The school has since expanded to include 5th grade in 2017, sixth grade in 2018, seventh grade in 2019 and 8th grade in 2020. 2020-2021.
In September of 2020 we expanded to become a complete K-8 school. Construction to add four classrooms and two bathrooms has was completed. We were excited to welcome new middle school students and additional K-4 students to fill up our space.
Other plans for the future include:
- Continuing to increase our after school clubs and activities.
- Offering more access to our coding, robotics, and engineering activities.
- Improve our science program, including adding a new instructor, new equipment, and more hands-on activities.
- Increasing partnerships with our communities of Oakdale, North St. Paul, and Maplewood, and East St. Paul.
- Committing to more community service projects with our North St. Paul neighbors.
- Connecting with local colleges to enrich our academic programs.
Our entire staff worked diligently to go through a very thorough curriculum adoption process for Math and Reading/English Language Arts. All of our staff were either in a Math Cohort, LETRS cohort or Social Justice cohort. All of the research-based curriculum selected is aligned to MN State Standards and research-based best practices. For reading/language arts, we selected a curriculum that is aligned to the SCIENCE OF READING. Many of our teachers last year received LETRS Training, which is training to understand the foundations of how to teach reading.
Our school is very diverse, including a rich blend of students from different cultures, ethnicities, and socio-economic backgrounds.