Summary:
ZIP code 55412 contains five schools — four elementary schools and one high school, with no standalone middle school — serving roughly 2,112 students in a high-poverty part of Minneapolis, where four of the schools belong to Minneapolis Public School District and one, Sojourner Truth Academy, is a single-school charter district.
Loring Elementary is the strongest school in the group: it holds the area's best rank percentile (14th), the only 1-star rating, and the top elementary math (21.1%) and science (18.6%) results, with the lowest free/reduced-lunch rate at 68.54%. Lucy Laney Elementary has the best elementary reading (23.7%) and improved in math, reading, and science year over year, yet still ranks in the 8th percentile. Cityview Elementary has the weakest reading (6.5%) but a science jump from 3.45% to 14.8%. Camden High, the largest school with 783 students, graduates 81.3% of students — above the district's 72.7% but below the state's 84.9% — with a 4.3% dropout rate, though its math proficiency is just 2.1%. Sojourner Truth Academy ranks lowest, in the 1st percentile with 0 stars and the highest poverty indicator at 91.91% FRPL.
Every school here trails Minnesota's averages in math, reading, and science, and all four district schools fall below Minneapolis Public School District averages as well. Reported student-teacher ratios are nearly uniform, from 10.1 to 10.4, except Sojourner Truth's, which is not reported and should be treated as unknown. Year-over-year trends are mixed: Lucy Laney gained ground in all three subjects, Cityview's science rose while reading dropped sharply, and Camden declined in math and reading. Families should weigh the strongest relative performance at Loring against the area-wide pattern of low proficiency.
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