Richfield Campus (K-8)
Bloomington Campus (K-5)
Seven Hills Preparatory Academy is recognized for its organizational stability, fiscal responsibility, and academic success.
Our mission-driven commitment to engage each individual student in a content-rich curriculum that challenges, supports, and differentiates us from other schools. This promotes our innovative decision-making and teaching practices that are both practical and purposeful. These yield successful outcomes for student learning and growth.
As a result of this commitment to academic growth, SHPA has been named a 2022 National Blue Ribbon Award School, Minnesota Reward School and identified as a High-Quality Charter School by the Minnesota Department of Education for its efforts toward closing student achievement gaps. Our focused efforts to increase student achievement and decrease achievement gaps has achieved the following results in 2022, proving any and all students can enjoy learning and succeed in school
Our Bloomington Campus is relocating permanently to Burnsville!
Seven Hills Preparatory Academy is an award-winning K-8 public charter school serving students as a single community from two locations.
Founded in 2006, Seven Hills Preparatory Academy (SHPA) offers a rigorous, content-rich academic program that fosters lifelong learning and character development in each student. Our Elementary School serves Grades K – 5, and our Middle School serves Grades 6 – 8. We enroll 900+ students and support them with a team of 70+ administrators, teachers, specialists and staff.
Our school has two campus locations. The Bloomington campus is located in a space leased from Cedar Valley Church, not far from I–494, south of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport and The Mall of America. The Richfield campus is in the Minnesota School of Business building, between Lyndale Avenue and I-35W.
Elementary students attend both the Bloomington and Richfield campuses. Middle school students attend the Richfield campus only.
At SHPA, we deliver instruction through the Classical Education model. We use Core Knowledge Scope and Sequence and courses in the liberal arts for our curriculum.