Summary:
Schools in the Columbia Heights Public School District number nine in total — three elementary schools, two middle schools, and four high school programs — serving about 3,442 students in Minnesota, where the district ranks 427th of 458 and sits at the 7th percentile. Nearly all students, roughly 98.6%, attend the five comprehensive schools, while four small programs enroll only 47 students combined. Many test scores for the smallest programs appear as "—," meaning the state suppressed them to protect student privacy; suppressed is not the same as zero.
Among tested schools, North Park School for Innovation is the clearest bright spot: it is the only tested school above the district average in math (16.6 vs 13.2), reading (26.9 vs 22.4), and science (8.8 vs 6.5), and the only one with a rising rank trend, moving from the 5th to the 9th percentile. Highland Elementary leads the district in math at 18.7, with 3rd grade math at 24.4 and 4th grade math at 24.7, both above district averages. Columbia Heights Senior High, the largest school at 1,141 students, holds the highest rank percentile at 13 but the lowest all-grades math score at 9.9.
Every tested school still trails Minnesota averages, and none reaches the state in any subject. Valley View Elementary has the lowest all-grades reading at 18.5, while Columbia Academy posts the lowest subject score in the data, science at 3.1. Districtwide, graduation is 86.2%, above the state's 84.9%, but the dropout rate of 9.0% is more than double the state's 4.2%. Reported free/reduced lunch rates are high everywhere, about 72% to 81%, yet North Park has the highest rate and the strongest reading and science results — poverty alone does not determine outcomes.
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