Best High Schools in Zip Code 55413

ZIP code 55413 in northeast Minneapolis is home to two small public high schools: VOA High at 2300 Kennedy St NE and Menlo Park Academy at 1700 2nd St NE. Both serve grades 9–12 and belong to the Minneapolis Public School District. Combined enrollment is only 120 students — 75 at VOA High and 45 at Menlo Park Academy — so both are very small high schools. Both also serve high-poverty populations, with free/reduced lunch rates of 88% at VOA High and 95.56% at Menlo Park Academy. The district itself ranks 310th of 458 in Minnesota, at the 32nd percentile with 2 stars.

Graduation and dropout results differ between the two. VOA High reports a graduation rate of 22.5% and a dropout rate of 7.5%. Menlo Park Academy reports a graduation rate of 37.0% and a dropout rate of 3.7%. Both graduation rates fall far below the district's 72.7% and the state's 84.9%, but Menlo's dropout rate is below both the district (6.0%) and the state (4.2%) — the clearest positive data point for either school. That lower dropout rate does not carry over into higher on-time graduation, and because the school is so small, year-to-year variation may be large. VOA High also reports a student/teacher ratio of 38.8, while Menlo Park Academy's ratio is not reported.

Most school-level test proficiency figures are suppressed by the state and shown as —, which means unknown, not zero. The only reported proficiency value is Menlo Park Academy's Math, All Grades, 2024–2025 result of 0% proficient, against 35.79% for the district and 45.21% for the state; with just 45 students, this single result should be interpreted cautiously. Historically, both schools ranked near the bottom: VOA High at 467 of 489, 4th percentile and 0 stars in 2016–2017, and Menlo Park Academy between the 11th and 17th percentile with 1 star. Families should ask both schools directly about graduation supports and about proficiency data not shown here.