Summary:
Zip code 55417 is home to nine schools — five elementary, one middle, and three high schools — serving about 1,107 students across three districts: Minneapolis Public School District, Cyber Village Academy, and Augsburg Fairview Academy. The area mixes two large neighborhood elementaries with a network of very small charter, hybrid, and online programs, so school size here ranges from 349 students down to just 12. Median enrollment is only 62 students, which means several schools' results rest on small numbers of students and can swing widely from year to year.
For current academics, Lake Nokomis Keewaydin Elementary is the clear standout: it is above both its district and the state in math, reading, and science, and its 2025–2026 rank rose to 288 of 869, or the 67th percentile with 3 stars. CVA Hybrid Middle School (6-8) also improved sharply, from the 24th to the 55th percentile, and beats its Cyber Village Academy district averages in all three subjects. Hale Elementary has the strongest history in the zip — 99th percentile and 5 stars in 2020–2021 — and the lowest free/reduced lunch rate at 17.18%, but it serves K–2, so it has no current state test scores to compare.
Challenges are concentrated at Augsburg Fairview Academy, where 93.18% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, the graduation rate is 11.5% against the state's 84.9%, and math proficiency is 7.7%. CVA 100% Online Middle & High posts a 51.8% graduation rate and the highest reported dropout rate, 14.8%. Many scores are suppressed and therefore unknown, especially at CVA 100% Online Elementary School and CVA Hybrid Elementary School (K-5). Low student-teacher ratios at the CVA hybrids, 5.3 to 7.3, do not translate into consistently higher proficiency.
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