Summary:
ZIP code 55070 covers St. Francis, Minnesota, where all eight public schools belong to St. Francis Area Schools. The mix includes one elementary, two middle, four high, and one alternative school, serving students from kindergarten through 12th grade. Total enrollment is about 2,931 students, and roughly 90% of them — 2,650 — attend the three comprehensive schools: St. Francis High, St. Francis Middle, and St. Francis Elementary. The remaining students are in very small online, transition, and alternative programs.
St. Francis Elementary is the academic anchor, holding 4 stars and ranking between the 73rd and 81st percentile across three cycles, with 2025–26 proficiency of 60.5% in math, 58.3% in reading, and 30.5% in science — all above district and state. St. Francis High posts the strongest completion outcomes, with a 95.7% graduation rate and 1.1% dropout rate versus the district's 89.0% and 3.1% and the state's 84.9% and 4.2%; math and science are solid, but 10th-grade reading is 32.4% against the state's 42.5%, and its rating slipped to 55th percentile, 3 stars. St. Francis Middle improved from 2 stars and the 41st percentile to 3 stars and the 65th percentile, with reading near or above state averages but math below state at every middle-school grade. Saints Academy faces the deepest challenges: a 58.3% graduation rate, 12.5% dropout rate, and 7.7% 11th-grade math proficiency.
The smallest schools — Saints Online High School, Saints Online Middle School, Restore Program, and Transition 15 — have suppressed or unavailable test scores, so their academics can't be judged from this data; suppression means unknown, not zero. Free and reduced lunch ranges from 26.34% at the high school to 56.25% in the smallest programs, and student/teacher ratios run from 5.8 to 21.6.
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