Summary:
ZIP 55413 in Minneapolis contains 7 schools—5 elementary-type schools (three of them K-8) and 2 high schools—serving about 2,281 students, with no standalone middle or alternative schools. Enrollment is heavily concentrated: Yinghua Academy has 851 students, or 37.3% of the ZIP total, while the two high schools are very small, with VOA High at 75 students and Menlo Park Academy at 45.
Among elementary schools, Yinghua Academy is the clear standout: a 5-star school ranked 11th of 869 statewide (99th percentile), with all-grade proficiency of 88.7% in math, 76.9% in reading, and 59.2% in science, far above Minnesota’s 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. New City School is the only other school above a state average in any all-grade subject, with reading at 53.7%, but math at 40.2% and science at 22.7%; it is also uneven, with 5th-grade math at 13.9% and 6th-grade math at 26.1%. By contrast, Las Estrellas Elementary, Northeast College Prep Charter School, and Webster Elementary are all in the bottom 10% of the state: Webster Elementary has math 6.4%, reading 17.2%, and science 6.1%; Northeast College Prep Charter School has math 11.9%, reading 17.5%, and science 4.9%; and Las Estrellas Elementary has math 16.1%, reading 18.9%, and science 13.6%.
The high schools have sparse test data: VOA High and Menlo Park Academy have suppressed 2025-2026 MCA scores (unknown, not zero). VOA High has a 22.5% graduation rate and 7.5% dropout rate, while Menlo Park Academy has a 37.0% graduation rate and 3.7% dropout rate, both far below the Minneapolis Public School District’s 72.7% and the state’s 84.9% graduation rates. The free/reduced-lunch rate ranges from 16.57% at Yinghua Academy to 95.56% at Menlo Park Academy, and low student-teacher ratios do not guarantee high achievement: Las Estrellas Elementary (9.5) and Webster Elementary (9.7) are far below state averages, while Yinghua Academy (13.4) and New City School (14.8) outperform them. Only Yinghua Academy is clearly above state science, and excluding Yinghua Academy, the other four reporting elementary schools average roughly 18.7% math, 26.8% reading, and 11.8% science. The key story is extreme disparity within one ZIP: a top-1% school alongside multiple bottom-10% schools.
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