Schools in Zip Code 55401

Zip code 55401 has a small public-school footprint: just two schools — one elementary serving grades K–5 and one middle school serving grades 6–8 — with no high school or alternative school in the listed data, both run by the same district and located at the same campus at 277 12th Ave N in Minneapolis. Together they enroll 921 students: Twin Cities International Schools (elementary) has 595 students, about 64.6% of the total, and MN International Middle Chr School (middle) has 326 students, about 35.4%.

The two schools have opposite strengths. The elementary school scores higher in math (31.1% vs. 22.0%) and science (11.2% vs. 8.0%), while the middle school scores higher in reading (29.7% vs. 25.5%). The district figures — 26.5% math, 27.6% reading, 9.6% science — sit almost exactly between the two schools, essentially averaging them and masking those differences. Class sizes differ sharply: the elementary school has a student-teacher ratio of 15.1, while the middle school's is 29.6, nearly double. The middle school is also the one improving its state rank, moving from the 15th to the 18th to the 22nd percentile over three years, though its reading slipped 3.43 points year over year. The elementary school rose to the 19th percentile, then fell back to 15th. The elementary school's clearest warning sign is a 5th-grade drop-off: math falls to 12.1%, down about 30 points from 3rd grade's 42.1%. The brightest single result in the data is the middle school's 8th-grade reading at 36.0%.

Both schools are 1-star, and Twin Cities International Schools ranks 389th of 458 in Minnesota, at the 15th percentile. Both score below the state in every all-grade subject — the smallest gap is about 13.8 points below state in elementary math, and middle science is roughly 31% of the state's 25.5%. Economic need is nearly universal at both, with free/reduced lunch at 99.33% and 99.39%. Families here should note there is no local public high school in this data set.