Summary:
ZIP code 55424 has one middle school, South View Middle, which serves grades 6–8 in Edina, Minnesota, as part of the Edina Public School District. With 1,021 students, it is the entire middle-school landscape for the ZIP code. The district is ranked 7th of 458 in Minnesota, at the 98th percentile with 5 stars, and South View is a 5-star school in its own right.
South View is consistently among Minnesota’s top middle schools. Its state rank was 12th of 546 in 2025–26, 11th of 519 in 2024–25, and 20th of 545 in 2023–24, placing it in roughly the top 2–4% of middle schools with 5 stars each year. In 2025–26, all-grade proficiency was 66.6% in math, 76.7% in reading, and 40.5% in science, compared with state averages of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. It is slightly above the district in reading (76.7% vs. 75.4%) but below the district in all-grade math (66.6% vs. 72.4%) and science (40.5% vs. 55.3%). The science comparison is not apples-to-apples because the district’s all-grade science figure likely includes other grades; on the directly comparable 8th-grade science test, South View beats the district, 40.5% to 37.9%, and is far above the state’s 16.7%.
At the grade level, South View is well above the state in every tested area. Its highest score is 6th-grade reading at 80.5%; its lowest are 7th-grade math at 64.1% and 7th-grade reading at 72.5%, still far above state averages. Performance is stable year over year: math was essentially flat from 66.7% to 66.6%, reading was flat from 76.64% to 76.7%, and science rose from 38.64% to 40.5%. Other metrics: 18.02% free/reduced lunch in 2024–25 and a student-teacher ratio of 17.8.
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