Summary:
ZIP code 55075 contains a single middle school: South St. Paul Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 with 535 students as part of the South St. Paul Public School District. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there are no other local middle schools to compare it against, so the most useful benchmarks are its own district and statewide averages. The school reports a 64.67% free/reduced lunch rate and a relatively favorable 11.2:1 student-teacher ratio.
The clearest positive trend is improvement. The school's state percentile rank rose from 23rd in 2023–2024 to 28th in 2024–2025 and 38th in 2025–2026, and its star rating improved from 1 star to 2 stars. That is 81 rank positions better than two years earlier, though the school still sits below the state midpoint. Reading is the academic strength: 42.6% of all grades were proficient, above the district's 40.6% and only 6.0 percentage points below the state's 48.6%. Eighth-grade reading, at 48.3%, is nearly at the state's 50%, and 6th-grade reading is also solid at 44.1%, with a dip in 7th grade at 35.4%.
Math and science are the main concerns. Math proficiency is 23.2%, which is 5.5 points below the district and 21.7 points below the state; it peaks in 7th grade at 29.0%, falls to 22.6% in 8th grade, and is weakest in 6th grade at 18.1%. Science is the most urgent gap: only 12.9% of all grades were proficient, below the district's 19.1% and about half the state's 25.5%, with 8th-grade science at 12.9% versus the state's 16.7%. Overall, reading is moving in the right direction while math and science need the most attention.
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