Summary:
ZIP code 55301 is home to five schools serving students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade across two districts — St. Michael-Albertville Schools and Kaleidoscope Charter School — with a combined enrollment of about 1,991 students, split between two elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school.
The academic standout is St. Michael-Albertville Middle West, which enrolls 1,076 students, holds 5 stars, and ranks in the top 8–9% of Minnesota middle schools for three straight years, with math at 56.3% and reading at 63.0% — both well above the state. Among the charter schools, Kaleidoscope Charter High School is the strongest: 4 stars and 78th percentile, science at 42.9% versus 25.5% statewide, and a 0.0% dropout rate, though its math results were suppressed by the state and remain unknown.
Kaleidoscope Middle School shows the sharpest split in the ZIP: reading at 53.6% and science at 29.7% both top the state, but math sits at 24.0%, with 6th grade math at just 9.5%. Kaleidoscope Charter Elementary School is the lowest rated at 1 star, with math 40.3%, reading 38.4%, and science 8.2%, far below the state's 25.5%. Albertville Primary serves PK–K and has no test data; it posts 21.8% free/reduced lunch and a 13.9 student-teacher ratio. Free/reduced lunch runs higher across the charter schools (35%, 31.62%, 28.95%) than at the two STMA schools (17.57%, 21.8%). At grade 5, STMA Middle West outperforms Kaleidoscope Elementary by 26.3 points in math, 27.5 in reading, and 22.0 in science.
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