Summary:
The North St. Paul-Maplewood Oakdale district includes six high schools serving grades 6 through 12, with about 3,533 students enrolled. Two comprehensive high schools — Tartan Senior High (1,687 students) and North Senior High (1,649) — hold roughly 94.4% of that enrollment. The rest are four small alternative settings: The Next Step, 622 Online High School, 622 Alternative Middle/High School, and Therapeutic Education Collective (T. The district ranks 341 of 458 in Minnesota, in the 26th percentile with 1 star.
Among the comprehensive high schools, Tartan is the stronger performer. In 2025–2026 it beat North in all three tested high-school subjects: Math 19.2% vs. 10.8%, Reading 36.9% vs. 30.6%, and Science 21.5% vs. 20.8%. Both fell below the state, but Tartan was above the district in all three while North was below in all three. Tartan also had the higher graduation rate (89.5% vs. 87.8%) and a lower free/reduced lunch rate (59.22% vs. 63.49%), while North had the lower dropout rate (2.3% vs. 3.9%). North's math proficiency dropped about 10.17 points year over year; Tartan gained 4.78 points in math and 4.58 in science but lost 4.69 in reading. In 2025–2026, Tartan ranked 308 of 473 (35th percentile, 2 stars), above the district's 26th percentile, while North ranked 363 of 473 (23rd percentile, 1 star).
The four smaller settings look very different. 622 Online had the lowest graduation rate (63.6%) and highest dropout rate (12.1%). 622 Alternative, with 30 students, reported a 0.0% dropout rate, a 71.7% graduation rate, 80% free/reduced lunch, a 4.0 student-teacher ratio, and 0% math proficiency. Poverty is high everywhere, ranging from 59.22% to 80%. Ratios are near 23:1 at the comprehensive schools versus 10.1 and 4.0 at the alternative ones. Many small-school test scores are suppressed, meaning unknown rather than zero.
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