Summary:
ZIP code 55424 in Edina, Minnesota contains six schools serving students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, all part of the Edina Public School District, which ranks #7 of 458 Minnesota districts (5 stars). Total enrollment is 2,642, but the zip is really two data sets in one: three large general-education schools — South View Middle, Concord Elementary, and Normandale Elementary — hold about 91% of students, while three small specialized programs report little or no comparable test data.
The three general-education schools are among the strongest in Minnesota, ranking #12, #18, and #23 in the state at their school levels and holding top-2% standing for three straight years. Concord Elementary is the strongest all-around, with the zip's highest math proficiency (82.2%) and 5th-grade reading score (82.5%), beating the district at every tested grade in both subjects. Normandale Elementary has the lowest poverty indicator (5.98%) and the single highest grade-level score anywhere in the data (87.6% in 4th-grade math), but also the lowest 3rd-grade reading result (64.4%). Reading is remarkably uniform across all three (a 0.8-point spread), while math varies by 15.6 points. South View Middle beats the district in reading and science but trails it in math by 5.8 points. All three roughly double state proficiency rates in math and reading.
The remaining three schools serve very different populations. Edina Virtual Pathway (75 students) has 72% free/reduced lunch, 14.3% reading proficiency, and an 80.7% graduation rate with a 0.0% dropout rate — its small size makes percentages swing widely. Early Childhood Special Educational (PK–K) and Special Educational-Non Public (7 students) report no usable proficiency data; several figures are suppressed by the state for privacy, meaning they are unknown, not zero. Notably, poverty level does not track performance among the large schools here.
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