Summary:
ZIP code 55331 contains one middle school, Minnetonka West Middle, a grades 6–8 school in Excelsior, MN, with 1,297 students in the Minnetonka Public School District. It has stayed in the top 1% of Minnesota middle schools for three straight reported years. Its state rank was 7th of 546 in 2025–26, 6th of 519 in 2024–25, and 8th of 545 in 2023–24, each time at the 99th percentile with 5 stars. The district is also highly ranked: 9th of 458 districts, 98th percentile, 5 stars.
In 2025–26, all-grades proficiency was 73.0% in math and 74.3% in reading, far above state rates of 44.9% and 48.6%. Science was more mixed: 37.6% at the school, above the state’s 25.5% but below the district’s 46.9%. The school’s all-grades science value matches its 8th-grade science value, 37.6%; the district’s 8th-grade science is 37.9%, so the comparable 8th-grade comparison is essentially even. Grade-level results show relative strengths in Math 8 (77.2% vs. 74.9% district) and Reading 6 (82.4% vs. 80.4% district), while Reading 7 (68.3% vs. 71.7%), Reading 8 (72.8% vs. 75.1%), and Math 7 (67.5% vs. 69.5%) are lower than the district but still well above state averages.
From 2024–25 to 2025–26, all-grades math fell 2.79 points at the school, compared with 1.58 at the district and 0.31 statewide; reading changed −0.40 at the school, −1.60 at the district, and −0.99 statewide; science rose 0.34 at the school while the district fell 0.14 and the state fell 0.65. Despite the math dip, the school stayed at the 99th percentile. It is a large school with a 16:1 student-to-teacher ratio and a 10.56% free/reduced lunch rate in 2024–25. For parents, the main takeaway is that this school is consistently elite in math and reading, with science strong against the state and roughly on par with its district at grade 8; its relative soft spots are grade 7 and 8 reading and grade 7 math compared with its own high-performing district, but all remain strong against statewide benchmarks.
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