Best High Schools in Zip Code 55404

ZIP code 55404 contains five high schools serving grades 7–12 — Lincoln International High School, Merc, Center School, Takoda Prep, and MERC Extended — with a combined enrollment of 298 students. These are mostly very small schools: enrollment ranges from 7 to 158, with a median of 37, and Lincoln International alone accounts for about 53% of the listed high-school enrollment. Four of the five are in the Minneapolis Public School District, ranked 310 of 458 in Minnesota at the 32nd percentile with 2 stars, while Lincoln International is listed under its own district, ranked 401 of 458 at the 12th percentile with 1 star.

Outcomes differ notably among the schools. Lincoln International has the highest reported current graduation rate at 51.7%, but also a 12.0% dropout rate, and it is the only school here with non-suppressed school-level test scores: Math 14.8%, Reading 5%, and Science 19.2%, all below the state figures of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. Merc has the lowest current dropout rate at 4.0%, slightly below the state rate of 4.2%, yet its graduation rate is only 36.0%. Center School reports both a 30.0% graduation rate and a 30.0% dropout rate, Takoda Prep has the lowest graduation rate at 15.0% with a 20.0% dropout rate, and MERC Extended, with just 7 students, has no current school-level graduation, dropout, or test data reported.

Test scores for Merc, Center School, Takoda Prep, and MERC Extended are suppressed by the state, so they cannot be compared on proficiency from this data — suppression does not mean zero. Poverty concentration is very high: among the four schools reporting free/reduced lunch, figures run from 86.11% to 100%, with Lincoln at 100% and Center at 97.3%. Among the four schools with current graduation rates, the average is 33.2%; among the four with dropout rates, the average is 16.5%. Every reporting school sits below the state graduation rate of 84.9%, and only Merc is near or below the state dropout rate.