Best High Schools in Zip Code 55303

ZIP code 55303 is home to 7 high schools serving grades 6–12, 9–12, 10–12, and one grade-12-only transition program, with total enrollment of 3,802 students. Six of the seven schools belong to Anoka-Hennepin School District, and one belongs to Pact Charter School. The group is very uneven: Anoka High School alone enrolls 2,348 students (about 61.8% of the ZIP total), while the smallest school has just 70. Several schools are alternative, technical, virtual, or transition programs, so their numbers are not directly comparable to a traditional high school.

Pact Charter Secondary is the strongest overall performer, ranked 88 out of 473 schools (81st percentile, 4 stars), with reading proficiency of 53.9% and 11th-grade math of 46.8% — both above the state (48.6% and 35.3%). Its graduation rate of 85.0% is just above the state's 84.9%, and its dropout rate of 1.6% is well below the state's 4.2%. Anoka High School shows a striking split: the highest reported graduation rate in the ZIP at 92.2% and a low dropout rate of 2.2%, but math at 23.6% and reading at 41.1%, both well below district and state averages. Its rank is 261 of 473 (45th percentile, 2 stars).

At the low end, Sandburg Regional High School ranks 464 of 473 (2nd percentile, 0 stars), with math at 2.9%, reading at 3.8%, science at 0.0%, and a graduation rate of 59.1%. The remaining schools — Anoka-Hennepin Technical High School (6.8% graduation), Secondary Technical Educational Prog S.T.E.P (11.9%), Secondary Virtual School (2.4%), and Two Rivers Transition at Franklin — have specialized missions, suppressed or missing test scores, or no rank data, so their figures should be read with caution and are not evidence of a struggling traditional high school.