Summary:
ZIP code 55423 in Richfield, Minnesota contains two middle schools serving grades 6–8: Richfield Middle, a district school with 808 students in Richfield Public School District, and Seven Hills - Richfield Middle, a charter school with 313 students in Seven Hills Preparatory Academy. Together they enroll roughly 1,121 middle-grade students along the same 76th Street corridor, making this a compact choice area where the two options sit only a short distance apart.
Seven Hills is the higher-performing of the two. It ranked 57th of 546 Minnesota middle schools in 2025-26 — roughly the top 10% of the state — earned four stars in all three recent years, and posted reading proficiency of 68.9%, which is 20.3 points above the state average of 48.6%. Its 8th-grade reading of 78.7% is the highest grade-level figure in this data. Its weak spot is science: 24.7% at all grades is 0.8 points below the state's 25.5%, and it dropped 8.3 points year over year, the largest decline in the data set. Math proficiency of 46.9% is 2.0 points above the state.
Richfield Middle sits below the state in all three subjects — reading 41.7%, math 30.3%, science 11.7% — trailing Seven Hills by 27.2 points in reading, 16.6 in math, and 13.0 in science. Its trend is the more encouraging story: statewide rank climbed from 386th to 318th over two years and percentile from 29 to 42, with math up 3.5 points and reading up 4.5 year over year, though science stayed flat. It also has a higher free/reduced lunch rate (57.67% vs 35.14%) and student–teacher ratio (11.7 vs 9.2). Science is the lowest-scoring subject at both schools and statewide.
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