Summary:
ZIP code 55126 is served by exactly one middle school: Chippewa Middle School, a grades 6–8 school with 1,093 students in the Mounds View Public School District. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP, this is a single-school profile rather than a comparison among local options, and the available data covers school and district rankings across multiple years, 2025–2026 MCA proficiency in Math, Reading, and Science, plus 2024–2025 free/reduced-price lunch and student-teacher ratio figures.
Chippewa stands out statewide, not just locally. It ranks 18th of 546 Minnesota middle schools in 2025–2026 — the 97th percentile with 5 stars — and it has held a top-4% position for three straight years, improving to roughly the top 3% this year and moving 21st → 20th → 18th. The district ranks 86th of 458, at the 81st percentile with 4 stars, so the school performs above its already-strong district. In 2025–2026, all-grade Math proficiency is 61.6% (+16.7 points vs. state), Reading is 68.6% (+20.0 vs. state), and 8th-grade Science is 34.1% (+17.4 vs. state 8th grade, +8.0 vs. district 8th grade). Note that the school's all-grade Science figure equals its 8th-grade figure because science is tested in 8th grade, so comparing against district and state 8th-grade science is the fairest approach.
Grade by grade, Chippewa beats district and state in every reported Math and Reading result: Math 6 at 62.9%, Math 7 at 54.8%, Math 8 at 67.1%, Reading 6 at 73.4%, Reading 7 at 62.3%, and Reading 8 at 70.0%. Reading is its strongest subject, while 7th-grade Math is its lowest — though still 14.5 points above the state. Year over year, Math slipped 1.17 points, Reading was flat, and Science rose 0.29 points, so the rank gain came from relative improvement. For context, the school reports 15.19% free/reduced lunch and a 19.5 student-teacher ratio, implying roughly 56 teachers.
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