Summary:
ZIP code 55405 in Minneapolis contains exactly one middle school: Anwatin Middle, a grades 6–8 school with 334 students in the Minneapolis Public School District. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there are no nearby peer schools to compare it with; the most useful comparisons are against its own district, the state of Minnesota, and its own prior years.
Anwatin's state ranking has sat in the bottom few percent of Minnesota middle schools for three straight years — 522nd of 546 in 2025–2026, 502nd of 519 in 2024–2025, and 523rd of 545 in 2023–2024 — earning 0 stars each year, while its district sits at the 32nd percentile with 2 stars. In 2025–2026, proficiency was 7.6% in math, 11.7% in reading, and 3.3% in science, compared with district rates of 37.1%, 41.8%, and 21.7%, and state rates of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. That places the school roughly 30 percentage points behind its district and about 37 points behind the state in both math and reading. Science is best compared at 8th grade, where the school's 3.3% trails the district's 14.6% and the state's 16.7%.
By grade level, 7th grade is the weakest in both math (5.2%) and reading (7.5%), while 8th-grade reading (14.4%) is the strongest result. Year-over-year changes are small: reading rose 0.35 percentage points, math fell 0.77, and science fell 1.05, leaving the overall picture largely unchanged. About 79% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.9. One caveat for parents: reading was labeled MCA-III in 2024–2025 but MCA-IV in 2025–2026, so year-over-year reading comparisons should be read cautiously.
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