Summary:
Spring Lake Park, Minnesota contains six schools serving roughly 2,611 students, all within Spring Lake Park Public Schools: two elementary schools, four high schools, and no middle schools in this listing, spanning grades PK through 12. The district is ranked 264th of 458 in Minnesota — the 42nd percentile — with 2 stars, but that single rating masks a sharply segmented group of schools.
Enrollment is heavily concentrated. Spring Lake Park Senior High enrolls 1,909 students, about 73% of the total, and posts a graduation rate of 88.5% and a dropout rate of 2.8%, both better than the state's 84.9% and 4.2%. Its 2025–2026 all-grade proficiency, however, trails the district and state in math (32.2%) and reading (38.4%), while science (25.5%) exceeds the district's 17.3%. At the other end, Park Terrace Elementary, with 532 students, has the highest free/reduced-lunch rate at 67.29% and the lowest rankings — 1 star, with percentile ranks in the 10–14 range — and math and reading far below district and state.
The two Lighthouse programs are the academic outliers. Elementary Lighthouse, with 29 students, ranked 1 of 872 in 2024–2025 with 5 stars and posted 96.43% math and reading that year. Secondary Lighthouse, with 34 students, reached 100% reading in both recent years, with 8th-grade science at 68.8% against the district's 13.2%. Both are tiny and low-poverty — free/reduced lunch of 17.24% and 14.71% — so small-sample volatility is a real caveat, and Secondary Lighthouse's reported 340 student/teacher ratio is a reporting artifact rather than a class size. Several schools, including Spring Lake Park High School ALP and SLP Schools Online Secondary, have largely suppressed test data, so the academic picture remains incomplete.
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