Best High Schools in Zip Code 55411

Eleven high schools serve about 2,664 students in ZIP code 55411, with four covering grades 6–12 and seven covering grades 9–12 across a mix of district, charter, online and alternative settings. Enrollment is concentrated: the four largest schools — North High, Metro College Prep, Metro 2 Online and MPS Online 6-12 — enroll 71.6% of all students, and the top two alone account for 44.1%. Minneapolis Public School District runs four of the schools (1,121 students), followed by Metro Schools Charter with two (958), Minnesota Internship Center with three (324), and one each from Exploration High School and Minnesota Transitions Charter School.

Metro College Prep shows the strongest overall academic signal: the best recent ranking (136 of 450, 70th percentile, 3 stars in 2024–25), 11th-grade math at 58.5% and 8th-grade math at 47.6%, both above state, plus an 80.3% graduation rate and 2.9% dropout rate. Metro 2 Online reports the highest all-grades math score, 54.5%, above the state's 44.9%, though its reading and science values are suppressed. Exploration High School has the only graduation rate above the state's 84.9%, at 85.7%, with a 2.0% dropout rate and by far the lowest poverty rate (47.79% FRL). Banaadir Academy leads in reading, 37.8%, with 8th-grade reading at 60% and 7th-grade reading at 50%, both above state, a 0.0% dropout rate and the lowest student-teacher ratio, 9.5.

Challenges are widespread. North High is the largest school at 591 students, but proficiency is very low — math 3.3%, reading 12.4%, science 4.9% — and its rank sits in the bottom few percentiles. The Minnesota Internship Center schools face steep graduation gaps: Downtown Campus 21.7%, Unity Campus 26.0% with the list's highest dropout rate at 21.7%, and MNIC Online Program 14.4%; Plymouth Youth Center graduates 9.0%. Several smaller alternative and online schools, including Minneapolis Academy & Career Center, have most test data suppressed by the state, so they cannot be fairly compared on proficiency. Poverty is concentrated throughout: the median FRL rate is 95.83%, and only Exploration High School falls below 50%.