Best High Schools in Zip Code 55347

ZIP code 55347 in Eden Prairie, Minnesota contains exactly one high school in this data set: Gateway Academy, a grades 9–12 school with 73 students located at 13100 College View Dr, Eden Prairie. It is operated by Intermediate School District 287 rather than the geographic Eden Prairie district, so there is no same-ZIP peer school to compare it against — the only meaningful benchmarks are its district (ISD 287) and the state of Minnesota. Because the school is the only one in the ZIP, its own figures are the whole story for this area.

Both published outcome measures at Gateway Academy fall short of benchmarks. The 2024–25 graduation rate is 30.6%, compared with 38.0% for Intermediate School District 287 and 84.9% statewide — roughly three in ten students graduating on time. The dropout rate is 16.3%, about double the district's 7.9% and roughly four times the state's 4.2%, or about one in six students; graduation and dropout come from different cohort definitions, so they do not add up to 100%. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 54.79%, meaning a majority of students are economically disadvantaged, and the student-teacher ratio is 15.7, which implies roughly four to five teachers for the whole 9–12 program.

Notably, Intermediate School District 287 itself sits well below state averages: All-Grades proficiency is 11% in math versus 44.9% statewide, 19.8% in reading versus 48.6%, and 18.2% in science versus 25.5%, with 11th-grade math at 0% district-wide against 35.3% for the state. That means Gateway Academy is not an isolated outlier — its context is weak overall. Every school-level test score for Gateway Academy is suppressed by the state to protect student privacy, so those proficiency figures are unknown, not zero and not evidence of poor performance; with only 73 students across four grades, the tested groups are likely too small to report. The only ranking on file is from 2018–2019, when the school placed 311th of 492 (37th percentile, 2 stars) — a stale single data point that should not be read as describing the school today.