Summary:
The Journey School district in Saint Paul, Minnesota contains two schools serving grades K–8: The Journey School (elementary, grades K–6, enrollment 125) and The Journey School Middle (grades 7–8, enrollment 12). Both share the same campus at 775 Lexington Parkway N, and there are no high schools or alternative schools in this district. Economic need is high and similar across both schools, with free/reduced lunch at 84% at the elementary school and 83.33% at the middle school. The district as a whole ranks 456 out of 458 in Minnesota, with 0 stars.
Compared with each other, the elementary school is the relatively stronger performer. In 2025–2026 its all-grade proficiency is above the district average in every reported subject — math 2.7% vs 2.2%, reading 9.6% vs 7.5%, and science 5% vs 3.7% — though all remain far below state averages of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. The middle school reports 0% in all-grade math and reading in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, below both the district and the state. Its science results are suppressed by the state and are unknown, not zero. Notably, the middle school has a lower student-teacher ratio (12.0) than the elementary school (20.8) without higher reported proficiency.
Two trends are worth noting. The elementary school declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: math fell from 7.14% to 2.7%, reading from 12.68% to 9.6%, and science from 5.56% to 5%. Its rank percentile also slipped from 7 in 2023–2024 to 1 in 2025–2026, and the middle school's only ranked year (2023–2024) showed the 1st percentile. Its strongest grade-level result, 6th grade reading at 20%, is still below the state's 53.4%, and several grade-level results are 0%. Because the middle school has only 12 students, its percentages can swing widely, and several values are suppressed and remain unknown.
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