Summary:
New Hope, Minnesota is home to 8 schools serving students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 — 5 elementary, 2 high, and 1 alternative school — with 3,475 students enrolled across Robbinsdale Public School District, Escuela Exitos Charter School, and Intermediate School District 287. Enrollment is highly concentrated: Robbinsdale Cooper Senior High (1,396 students) and Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion Elementary (733) together account for about 61% of students, while two schools are very small.
Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion Elementary is the clear academic standout: it is the only New Hope school above the state in Reading (50.6% vs. 48.6%), nearly at the state in Math (43.7% vs. 44.9%), holds the highest rank percentile (44th, 2 stars), and has the lowest free/reduced-lunch rate (33.02%). At the other end, Escuela Exitos sits at the 2nd percentile with 0 stars and proficiency of 7.5% in Math and Reading and 4.8% in Science. Meadow Lake Elementary serves the highest-poverty population (82.79% free/reduced lunch). Cooper Senior High graduates students at 83.9%, close to the state's 84.9%, but its Math proficiency is 8.8% and its dropout rate is 5.5%. North Education Center Academy has a 25.0% graduation rate and 20.8% dropout rate, with test scores suppressed by the state.
Across the five New Hope schools with reported scores, average proficiency is 19.7% in Math, 27.0% in Reading, and 12.2% in Science — all well below state averages of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. No New Hope school with reported data reaches the state in Science, and only Spanish Immersion comes close in Math. Among the seven schools reporting free/reduced lunch, the average is 63.5%, ranging from 33.02% to 82.79%, and student/teacher ratios range from 6.9 to 18.2. Rank trends are mostly stable or low, with Cooper slipping from the 20th to the 16th percentile.
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