Summary:
ZIP code 55403 contains five schools — one elementary school serving PK–5 and four high schools serving grades 9–12 — all within the Minneapolis Public School District, with 1,090 students enrolled in total. Emerson Elementary is the largest school with 491 students, followed by FAIR High at 337, Wellstone International High at 166, Loring-Nicollet High at 57, and Wellstone International High - SWS at 39. There are no middle schools in this ZIP code.
Results differ dramatically from school to school, even inside one district. FAIR High has the strongest graduation rate at 82.1% with a dropout rate of just 1.3% — both better than the district. Wellstone International High - SWS also performs well on completion, graduating 79.1% of students with a 0.0% dropout rate, though it is a very small school. Wellstone International High sits at the opposite extreme: an 8.3% graduation rate and a 36.4% dropout rate, ranking at the bottom of the state for 2025–2026. Loring-Nicollet High graduates 35.7% with a 7.1% dropout rate and has the area's highest free/reduced lunch rate at 66.67%.
At Emerson Elementary, science proficiency of 21.9% is close to the district average, but math and reading trail the district and state, and 4th-grade reading is a clear weak spot at 16.7% versus 42.7% districtwide. FAIR High's math proficiency is unusually low at 2.3%, even though its reading and science are nearer typical levels. Free/reduced lunch is high at every school here, ranging from 51.2% to 66.67%, and student/teacher ratios do not line up neatly with outcomes. Several test scores are suppressed by the state, meaning they are unknown rather than zero. The district overall ranks 310th of 458 in Minnesota with 2 stars, which is important context for all of these numbers.
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