Summary:
ZIP code 55033 includes 9 schools — 3 elementary, 1 middle and 5 high schools — serving roughly 3,921 students, mostly in eight campuses within the Hastings Public School District, plus one in Intermediate School District 917. Enrollment is heavily concentrated: Hastings High School, Hastings Middle School and the three elementaries account for about 98 percent of students. The four very small high-school-level settings — Hastings Alternative Center (32 students), 917 Riverside School (17), HOA High School (13) and Staars (8) — enroll only about 70 students combined, and many of their test scores are suppressed by the state, which means unknown, not failing.
Elementary math is the area's clearest strength. All three elementaries beat the district (44.1%) and state (44.9%) in all-grades math: Pinecrest Elementary at 65.6%, Christa McAuliffe Elementary at 60.3% and Kennedy Elementary at 53.8%. Pinecrest is the standout: it also leads reading at 59.8% and ranks 190 of 869, the 78th percentile with 4 stars, up from the 63rd–67th percentile range in prior years. Christa McAuliffe is above state in reading too, at 54.5%, and sits in the 67th percentile with 3 stars.
Secondary results are weaker. Reading slips below the state average at Kennedy (43.9%), Hastings Middle School (46.1%) and Hastings High School (38%). Science is a consistent weak spot: Hastings Middle reports 16% and Hastings High 19%, against the state's 25.5%. Hastings High also fell from the 87th percentile and 4 stars in 2023–2024 to the 48th percentile and 2 stars now. The good news is completion — Hastings High graduates 95.6% of students with a 2.8% dropout rate, and Hastings Alternative Center graduates 94.7% with a 0.0% dropout rate, both well ahead of the state's 84.9% and 4.2%.
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