Summary:
Excelsior, Minnesota is served by three public schools — two elementary schools (K–5) and one middle school (6–8) — all part of the Minnetonka Public School District, which ranks 9th of 458 districts in Minnesota (98th percentile) and holds a 5-star rating. Together they enroll 2,884 students: 1,587 in the elementary grades (about 55%) and 1,297 at the middle school (about 45%). Every school in the city earned 5 stars, and each has ranked highly for three consecutive school years.
Minnetonka West Middle is the standout middle school, ranked 7th of 546 middle schools statewide (99th percentile) and holding a top-10 rank for three years running. Its Math (73.0%) and Reading (74.3%) proficiency are near district levels and far above state figures, with 6th-grade Reading at 82.4%. Excelsior Elementary ranks 22nd of 869 elementary schools (97th percentile) and leads the city in Math (80.4%) and Science (57.1%); its 4th-grade Math score of 86.9% is the highest math result in the data set, and it has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 12.7. Minnewashta Elementary ranks 53rd of 869 (94th percentile), has the strongest single reading result — 5th-grade Reading at 83.1% — and the lowest free/reduced lunch rate at 6.82%.
Every Excelsior school is well above state averages in all subjects; the smallest margin is Minnewashta's Math score, still 24.5 points above the state's 44.9%, while Excelsior's Math is 35.5 points above. Poverty indicators do not track neatly with performance, and West Middle remains a top-1% school despite being the largest school with the highest student-teacher ratio (16.0). Math and Reading dipped slightly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 across the schools, district, and state, while Science was mixed. Overall, these three schools form a small, consistently high-performing cluster.
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