Summary:
St. Anthony-New Brighton Schools is a small suburban district in Minnesota serving 1,881 students across three schools: one elementary (PK–5), one middle (6–8), and one high school (9–12). The district as a whole ranks 54th of 458 in Minnesota — the 88th percentile with 4 stars — and its students outperform the state average in math (54.7% vs 44.9%), reading (59.2% vs 48.6%), and science (27.4% vs 25.5%).
Wilshire Park Elementary is the breakout school, rising from the 67th percentile (3 stars) to the 85th percentile (4 stars) and posting the highest proficiency of the three schools in math (66.8%), reading (63.7%), and science (33.9%), with year-over-year gains of +9.49 points in math, +6.23 in reading, and +6.48 in science. St. Anthony Middle is the most consistently strong, holding the 81st–86th percentile range with 4 stars for three years and reaching the 86th percentile in 2025-2026; its reading is excellent at 61.7% overall, including 72.9% in 6th grade. Its math (49.1%) is above the state but below the district, and science is 17.5%, though that is slightly above the matching 8th-grade state rate of 16.7% and has declined from 21.23%.
St. Anthony Village Senior High is the largest school (752 students) with the highest student-teacher ratio (18.9) and the lowest academic rank at the 64th percentile with 3 stars. Its graduation rate (90.1%) and dropout rate (2.3%) beat the state, and math improved by +8.95 points, but reading dropped 10.79 points to 44.1%. Parents comparing schools should note that the district's strong overall rank is driven by the elementary and middle schools.
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