Summary:
The Avalon School district in Saint Paul, Minnesota contains two high schools — Avalon School (grades 9–12, 182 students) and Avalon Online School">Avalon Online School (grades 8–12, 18 students) — serving about 200 high-school students combined.
Avalon School enrolls roughly 91% of the area's high-school students and has the most complete data. Its clearest strength is reading: 71.4% proficiency in 2025–2026, up against 58.7% district and 48.6% state, and essentially unchanged from 71.43% the prior year. Science, at 35%, is above the state's 25.5% but down sharply from 51.61% a year earlier. Math is the weak spot: 22.9%, versus 31.8% in the district and 44.9% statewide, and a drop of about 15 points from 38.24%. Graduation and dropout also lag: 75.5% graduating (district 76.7%, state 84.9%) and a 10.2% dropout rate, more than double the state's 4.2%. Its school-level rank slipped from 65th of 450 (86th percentile) to 131st of 473 (72nd percentile), still holding 4 stars.
Avalon Online School looks very different. It is far smaller, has a free/reduced lunch rate of 66.67% compared with 25.27% at Avalon School, and a student-teacher ratio of 26.8 versus 10.6 — about 2.5 times higher. Its 2025–2026 test scores are suppressed by the state, so its academic performance is unknown rather than low, and no fair comparison can be drawn. Both schools share the same district rating (98th of 458, 79th percentile, 4 stars), which does not capture these differences.
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