Summary:
Career Pathways is the only school in the Career Pathways district in Saint Paul, Minnesota, serving 121 students in grades 6–12 and classified as a high school even though it enrolls middle school grades as well.
The school's academic results are well below Minnesota averages in every reported comparison. In 2025–2026, 3.7% of students were proficient in Math All Grades versus 44.9% statewide, 14.3% in Reading All Grades versus 48.6%, and 4.8% in Science All Grades versus 25.5%. Eleventh-grade math proficiency was 0%, compared with 35.3% statewide, while tenth-grade reading was 16.7% — the school's highest reported grade-level figure — against 42.5% statewide. Graduation and dropout figures follow the same pattern: the graduation rate was 51.7% versus 84.9% statewide, and the dropout rate was 6.9% versus 4.2%. Some middle-grade results for math, reading, and science are suppressed by the state, so those figures are unknown and should not be read as zero. Between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, reading improved from 5.88% to 14.3% while math slipped slightly from 4.17% to 3.7%; science cannot be compared because the earlier figure is suppressed.
Context matters here. About 87.6% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is a low 11.2, which may mean smaller classes or additional staffing support. The school ranks 437 of 458 currently, in the 5th percentile with 0 stars, and its rank history places it between the 7th and 10th percentile in the two other reported years. For families, the key takeaway is a small, high-poverty school with significant academic challenges and consistently low rankings, alongside favorable structural features worth asking about during a visit.
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