Middle Schools in Hennepin Schools

Middle schools in Hennepin Schools consist of exactly one campus: Hennepin Schools Upper Campus, which serves grades 5–8 and enrolls 207 students in Minneapolis, MN. Because it is the only middle school in this area, there are no side-by-side middle-school comparisons to make; the most useful benchmarks are its parent district, Hennepin Schools — ranked 381st of 458 in Minnesota at the 17th percentile with 1 star — and the state. The record covers test scores for 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, plus free/reduced-lunch and student-teacher-ratio data for 2024–2025.

Academically, the school trails the state in every tested subject. In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency was 22.7% in Math, 25.3% in Reading and 13.4% in Science, against state rates of 44.9%, 48.6% and 25.5% — roughly half the state rate in each subject. Grade 7 Reading was the lowest reported result at 9.8%, which is 33.7 points below the state's 43.5%; grade 6 Reading (18.9%) and grade 6 Math (13.2%) were also major weak points. The strongest results were grade 5 Math at 36.1%, grade 8 Reading at 37.8% and grade 5 Reading at 37.1% — still below state, but the best the school has to show. Science is reported only for grades 5 and 8 in this data.

Rank history shows a sharp drop followed by stabilization at a low level: 2 stars and the 41st percentile in 2023–2024, then 1 star and the 19th percentile in 2024–2025, then 1 star and the 18th percentile in 2025–2026. Year over year, Science rose from 7.77% to 13.4% and Math edged up from 21.21% to 22.7%, while Reading fell from 28.43% to 25.3%; that reading comparison deserves caution, since the exam label changed from MCA-III to MCA-IV. Nearly the entire student body — 96.14% — was eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 15.8.