Summary:
Coon Rapids, Minnesota is home to 19 schools serving students from elementary through high school: 9 elementary, 3 middle, 6 high, and 1 alternative school, totaling 8,528 students. Most of them—14 of 19—belong to Anoka-Hennepin School District, which ranks 184 of 458 districts statewide (60th percentile, 3 stars). Enrollment is very unevenly distributed: Coon Rapids High School alone has 1,975 students, about 23% of the city total, while the median school enrolls just 391. Several schools are tiny, including Innovation Sci & Technical Middle (20 students), Compass Online (21), and Anoka-Hennepin Regn Night School (30).
The academic standout is Northdale Middle, the only school holding 4 stars for three straight years and ranked 87 of 546 (84th percentile), with the city's lowest free/reduced-lunch rate at 41.16%. Eisenhower Elementary is the strongest elementary: it leads the city in reading (56.8%) and science (39.8%), beats both district and state in all three subjects, and climbed from the 53rd to the 68th percentile. Mississippi Elementary posts the top math score at 61.3%. Meanwhile Coon Rapids High School graduates 90.2% of students with a 1.8% dropout rate—better than district and state—yet its proficiency (math 30.3%, reading 41.8%, science 22.5%) trails both, and its rank slipped from the 58th to the 47th percentile.
Science is a citywide weak spot, with general-education Anoka-Hennepin averages below district and state. Paladin Career and Technical High School and Northwest Passage High School face steep challenges, with graduation rates of 55.0% and 48.6% and proficiency in the single digits to mid-20s. Star of the North - Coon Rapids has the highest poverty rate (99.17%) and student-teacher ratio (57.1), while River Trail Learning Center @ LO Jacob has the lowest ratio at 1.9. Small schools often have suppressed or volatile data, so those figures should not be read as zeros.
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