Summary:
ZIP code 55110 (White Bear Lake, Minnesota) includes 21 schools serving about 7,797 students from pre-kindergarten through high school, and it is unusually multi-system for a single ZIP: five different operators run schools here. White Bear Lake School District covers 11 schools and roughly 91% of enrollment, alongside Gentry Academy Charter School (2 schools), Level Up Academy (4 schools), Northeast Metro 916 (3 special-education programs), and one Mahtomedi Public School District program. Enrollment is top-heavy — three schools hold 56% of all students — and five schools report no usable test data, which means unknown, not zero.
The academic standout is Lincoln Elementary, ranked 39th of 869 Minnesota elementaries (96th percentile) with 5 stars and strong results in math (73.2%), reading (72.4%), and science (57.1%), against state rates of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. Central Middle (92nd percentile, 5 stars) leads the middle schools, and White Bear Lake Area High School (73rd percentile, 4 stars) posts a 97.3% graduation rate with 0% dropout and gains in every subject. Otter Lake Elementary and Matoska International also beat both state and district averages in all three subjects, while Gentry Academy High has the highest science score of any high school (40%).
The widest gaps sit inside the same district: Lincoln Elementary (73.2% math) and Willow Lane Elementary (31.3% math) are about five miles apart — a 41.9-point difference. Willow Lane, Lakeaires Elementary, and Birch Lake Elementary rank at or below the 30th percentile and have declined over multiple years, and Level Up Academy and Level Up Academy Middle School rank lowest among the ZIP's operators. Science is the shared weakness, below state at six schools. Even so, local high schools beat the state on graduation, from 82.2% at White Bear Area Learning Center to 97.3% at the comprehensive high school.
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