Summary:
St. Anthony-New Brighton Schools contains a single middle-level school, St. Anthony Middle, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 439 students in Saint Anthony, Minnesota, just north of Minneapolis. Because it is the district's only middle school, there is no peer school to compare against; the most useful comparisons are to Minnesota statewide averages and to the school's own past performance. It ranks 79th of 546 Minnesota middle schools in 2025–26 — the 86th percentile — and has earned four stars for three consecutive years.
Reading is the school's clear strength: 61.7% of students met the standard, 13.1 points above the state and the highest single figure in the data, with 6th grade reaching 72.9%. Math sits at 49.1%, roughly 4 points above the state. Science is the weak spot: only 17.5% of 8th graders were proficient, barely above a very low state figure of 16.7%. One consistent pattern stands out — results are strongest in 6th grade and fade by 8th grade, with Math sliding from 57.6% to 45.5% to 44.1%, and the school's advantage over the state shrinking from about 18 points to under 2.
The school's trajectory is steadily improving. Its state percentile rose from 81 to 84 to 86 across three years, and its rank moved from 105th to 79th even as the pool of ranked schools grew, so the gains are real rather than a statistical artifact. About 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced lunch, with a 13.7-to-1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–25. Compared with the district as a whole, the school leads in Reading but trails in Math — a gap that reflects strong elementary results feeding into the middle grades, not a middle-school deficit.
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