Best Public Schools in Zip Code 55114

ZIP code 55114 contains six schools — one middle school and five high schools, with no elementary schools — serving about 599 students in a high-school-heavy cluster operated by three districts: Avalon School, Jennings Community School, and Minnesota Online High School.

Avalon School stands out academically in reading and science, scoring 71.4% in reading and 35.0% in science in 2025–2026, both well above state levels, though its math results (22.9%) fall below the state. Avalon Middle School is the most improved school in the area, climbing from a 48th to a 70th percentile rank and from 2 to 4 stars, with gains in math, reading, and science. Minnesota Online High School is the largest school with 254 students and showed strong historical rank improvement, but its most recent rank is from 2018–2019. Together, Avalon School and Minnesota Online enroll roughly 73% of the ZIP's students.

Graduation rates at all three reporting high schools trail the state's 84.9%: Avalon School at 75.5%, Minnesota Online at 54.3%, and Jennings Community School at 38.1%, the lowest in the area, despite a reported 0.0% dropout rate. Poverty is concentrated in the smaller programs: Jennings Community (77.19% free/reduced lunch), Jennings Online Program (76.92%), and Avalon Online School (66.67%), versus roughly 25–29% at the three larger schools. These small online programs — 18 and 13 students — have mostly suppressed test data, so their academic performance cannot be judged from this data set.