VirtualEDU Secondary

VirtualEDU Secondary is a small public school in Golden Valley, Minnesota, serving grades 6–12 with 112 students as part of the Hopkins Public School District, which ranks 240th of 458 Minnesota districts — about the 48th percentile. Its combination of middle and high school grades makes it unusual among nearby schools, and its very small enrollment means many grade-level results are suppressed for privacy and year-to-year percentages can swing dramatically.

Academically, the school is sharply split. Reading is its clearest strength: 52.9% of students were proficient in 2025–26, above the district's 46.2% and the state's 48.6%, and far above nearby Robbinsdale Virtual Academy (25%) and Harrison Education Center (23.1%). Eighth-grade reading reached 83.3%. Math and science, however, are severe weaknesses — 6.7% and 5.9% proficient in 2025–26, compared with 35.5% and 24.6% across the district. Reading has also been volatile, falling to 18.18% in 2022–23 before recovering.

Graduation and dropout trends are a concern. The graduation rate has sat at 66.6% for two years, well below the district's 86.0% and the state's 84.9%, and the dropout rate jumped from 0% to 5.5%. Even so, the school outperforms several nearby alternative programs — Robbinsdale Virtual Academy (55.5% graduation), Harrison Education Center (50%), and Highview Alternative Learning Center (43.1%) — while falling far short of St. Louis Park Senior High and Perpich Center For Arts Education, which graduates 98.8%. Roughly 46% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For parents, the key questions are whether the reading gains hold and whether the dropout increase is a one-year anomaly or a trend.