Summary:
ZIP code 55070 covers Saint Francis, Minnesota, and contains two middle schools — St. Francis Middle and Saints Online Middle School — both part of the St. Francis Area Schools district and both serving grades 6 through 8. Together they enroll 906 students, but the sizes are very different: St. Francis Middle has 890 students and Saints Online has just 16.
St. Francis Middle is the only school here with measurable academic results, and its trajectory is the headline. It rose from the 41st percentile (2 stars) in 2023-24 to the 65th–66th percentile (3 stars) in the two most recent years — a jump of 25 percentile points that it has held onto. Reading is its strongest subject, with proficiency above the state in both reported years (50.3% vs 48.6% in 2025-26), and 6th-grade reading at 57.1% is the highest single result in the data. Science improved year over year, from 16.45% to 20.3%, and its 8th-grade science (20.3%) beats the state's 8th-grade figure (16.7%). Math is the weak spot: proficiency trails the state by 7–10 points in grades 6 and 7 (29.8% vs 39.5%; 32.9% vs 40.3%) and reaches state parity only by 8th grade. One bright note for parents: on grade-level comparisons, the school beats its own district in every tested subject.
Saints Online Middle School serves a very different population — 56.25% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch versus 31.57% at St. Francis Middle, and its student-teacher ratio is lower (13.4 vs 21.6). However, the state suppressed every one of its school-level test scores, so its academic performance is simply unknown. With only 16 students, that suppression is expected privacy practice and should not be read as evidence of low performance. No academic comparison between the two schools is possible from this data.
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