Summary:
ZIP code 55044 in Lakeville, Minnesota contains five schools serving grades 6 through 12 — two large comprehensive high schools and three small online, alternative, and specialized programs — all operating within Lakeville Area Schools, a district ranked in the 85th percentile statewide with 4 stars. Total enrollment across the five is 3,907 students.
Lakeville North High (1,871 students) and Lakeville South High (1,816) together hold about 94% of the students here, and they perform very similarly. North's graduation rate is 96.6% and South's is 95.7%, both far above the state's 84.9%; dropout rates are 1.3% and 0.8% against a state rate of 4.2%. At the grade levels that actually apply to high schools, both beat the district and state in 11th-grade math and 10th-grade reading. The genuine differences are small: North leads in science (32.1% vs 28.0%), while South has the lower dropout rate. Both slipped in math and reading in 2025–26 but gained in science. Note that the district's All-Grades averages look higher only because they include elementary and middle grades.
The three smaller programs tell a different story. Lakeville Online Academy-High (153 students) posted a 70.1% graduation rate and a 10.5% dropout rate, while Lakeville Pathways Academy (58 students) has the highest dropout rate at 14.5%, the lowest graduation rate at 62.5%, and 0% math proficiency in 2025–26. Children's MN - Lakeville enrolls just 9 students, and nearly all of its data — including test scores, graduation, and dropout — is suppressed by the state, so it cannot be meaningfully compared. Across all five, higher poverty indicators track with weaker outcomes, and Pathways' very small student-teacher ratio of 9.4 reflects its intensive alternative setting rather than an advantage. Many of the missing values in this data are state privacy suppressions, not zeros.
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