Summary
South View Middle is a grades 6–8 school in Edina, Minnesota, serving 1,021 students as part of the Edina Public School District, a highly ranked district in the Twin Cities metro. It is currently ranked 12th of 546 middle schools statewide for 2025–2026, placing it in the 98th percentile with 5 stars. That is not a one-year spike: South View ranked 11th of 519 the year before and 39th of 523 back in 2016–2017 — still the 93rd percentile. It has stayed in the top 5% of Minnesota middle schools for most of the past decade.
Proficiency is strong across core subjects: 76.7% in reading, 66.6% in math, and 40.5% in science, compared with statewide rates of 48.6%, 44.9%, and 25.5%. Reading is South View's strongest area, and the 6th-grade reading rate of 80.5% nearly matches both the district and Valley View Middle, its same-district peer that ranks slightly higher overall and leads in math and reading. Compared with nearby schools, South View is in a distinctly higher tier: it leads Anthony Middle by 6.1 points in math, 8.8 in reading, and 16.8 in science, and it posts the highest science result among nearby middle schools. Its 40.5% science figure is an 8th-grade result, above the district's 8th-grade rate of 37.9% and far above the state's 16.7%. The clearest relative soft spot is 7th-grade math at 64.1%, below the district's 68%.
South View also serves many student groups at a high level, ranking at or near the top statewide for female, male, white, special education, and multi-racial students. African American, low-income, and English Language Learner students have shown sharp recent gains, with low-income students moving from the 66th to the 83rd percentile and English Language Learners from the 50th to the 92nd percentile. Context is worth noting: 18.02% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, lower than most neighbors such as Richfield Middle at 57.67%, and the student-teacher ratio has risen from 14.8 to 17.8 while achievement has held steady.
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