Summary:
High School For Recording Arts is the only high school in this area — a single grades 9–12 campus at 1166 University Ave in Saint Paul, Minnesota, serving 181 students. Because the High School For Recording Arts district contains just this one school, every district figure reported here is identical to the school's own figure. About 91.71% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating very high economic need, and the student-teacher ratio is 16.3; the data set offers no state comparison for that ratio.
Achievement and completion numbers are far below Minnesota averages. The graduation rate is 34.2%, compared with the state's 84.9% — a gap of 50.7 percentage points — and the dropout rate is 8.5%, more than double the state's 4.2%. On 2025–2026 MCA tests, math proficiency is 0% against a state average of 44.9%, and reading is 9.1% against 48.6%. Both represent declines from 2024–2025, when math was 8.33% and reading 29.41%; reading alone fell 20.31 percentage points in a year. Science proficiency is suppressed by the state for both years, so it cannot be evaluated and should not be read as zero or as a weakness.
Rankings place the school near the bottom of Minnesota high schools. It currently sits 445th of 458 (3rd percentile, 0 stars). Rank history shows 455th of 473 (4th percentile, 0 stars) in 2025–2026, 389th of 450 (14th percentile, 1 star) in 2024–2025 — its relative high point — and 468th of 480 (3rd percentile, 0 stars) in 2023–2024. Taken together, the data describes a high-need school with low completion, low test proficiency, and bottom-tier ranking; with only one school and one year of graduation data, causes cannot be established.
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