Summary:
Wayzata Public School District, in Minnesota's western Twin Cities suburbs, contains three high schools serving a combined 3,960 students in grades 9–12 (one serves grade 12 only). The district itself is highly rated — ranked 10 of 458 Minnesota districts, in the 98th percentile with 5 stars. That rating applies to the district as a whole, not to each individual school. Enrollment is heavily concentrated: Wayzata High has 3,781 students (about 95.5% of the district's high-school enrollment), The Alternative Program (TAP) has 142, and Wayzata Transition School has 37. Because one school is so large, district-level high school results largely reflect Wayzata High.
Wayzata High is the clear academic standout. It has ranked in the top 1% of Minnesota high schools for three straight years (4 of 480, 6 of 450, and 7 of 473), with a 97.2% graduation rate and a 0.4% dropout rate, compared with state figures of 84.9% and 4.2%. Test proficiency is far above state averages: math 77.9 vs. 44.9, reading 72.2 vs. 48.6, and science 57.9 vs. 25.5. Scores did dip from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 — reading by 6.5 points, science by about 4.4, and math by about 2.3 — but remain well above district and state benchmarks. The reading comparison should be read cautiously, since the exam label changed from MCA-III to MCA-IV.
The two smaller programs serve very different student populations. Free/reduced lunch rates are 60.56% at TAP and 51.35% at Wayzata Transition, versus 16.4% at Wayzata High. Student-teacher ratios differ sharply too — 59.4 at TAP, 7.4 at Wayzata Transition, and 21.7 at Wayzata High — reflecting different staffing models and reporting conventions rather than simple class size. TAP's current test scores are shown as —, meaning the state suppressed them to protect student privacy, so its present performance is unknown and should not be read as zero or as a weakness. Wayzata Transition has no test, rank, or graduation data in this data set at all. Families comparing these schools should weigh mission, size, and student needs alongside academics, and interpret missing figures as unavailable rather than poor.
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