Summary:
ZIP code 55075 (South St. Paul, Minnesota) contains six schools serving about 2,819 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, nearly all of them in the South St. Paul Public School District — a district ranked 318th of 458 in Minnesota, at the 31st percentile with 2 of 5 stars.
The standout stories are mixed. South St. Paul High School graduates 93.0% of students — above both its district (77.5%) and the state (84.9%) — but posts only 17.3% math proficiency versus 44.9% statewide, and its science score (26.6%) is the only district-run result here that beats the state. South St. Paul Middle School is the clearest improver, with three straight years of rank gains (23rd → 28th → 38th percentile), a star rating that moved 1 → 1 → 2, and reading up 39.05% → 42.6%. Among the two similarly sized elementaries, Lincoln Center Elementary leads on math (40.3%) and reading (41.2%) and holds 2 stars, while Kaposia Education Center Elementary serves a higher-need population (70.16% free/reduced lunch vs. 56.12%) with lower scores (37.0% math, 37.6% reading) and 1 star. The two smallest schools serve specialized populations: S St. Paul Community Learning Cntr. (99 students, 35.2% graduation, a reported 0% math, no reading results) and 917 Deaf/Hard of Hearing (29 students, in Intermediate School District 917), which has a 1.4 student-to-teacher ratio and beat its own district in math (20% vs. 10.2%) and reading (27.3% vs. 23.3%).
District-wide, math is the weak spot — every district-run school trails the state, by 4.6 points at Lincoln Center up to 27.6 at the high school — while reading gaps are smaller and science is mixed. No school here has topped the 40th percentile in three years, and grades 6–12 show a pronounced reading-over-math tilt. Some figures are suppressed by the state and are unknown, not failures.
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