Best High Schools in Zip Code 55427

ZIP code 55427 in Golden Valley, Minnesota is home to two high schools, both part of the Robbinsdale Public School District: Highview Alternative Learning Center (grades 9–12, 277 students) and Robbinsdale Virtual Academy (grades 6–12, 170 students). Both serve high-poverty populations, with free/reduced-lunch rates of 76.17% and 69.41%, and nearly identical student-teacher ratios of 18.9 and 19.1. The district itself ranks 335 of 458 in Minnesota — the 27th percentile — with 1 star.

Neither school outperforms the district or state in any available core metric. Highview posts the lower graduation rate, 43.1% versus 55.5% at Virtual Academy, against 77.5% for the district and 84.9% for the state. Yet Highview has the lower dropout rate, 4.5% versus 6.9%; both are above the district's 3.9% and the state's 4.2%. Highview reports 0% math proficiency in all grades and in 11th grade for 2025–2026, and 0% in all grades for 2024–2025, plus 0% science in 2024–2025. Virtual Academy's relative bright spot is reading: 25% in 2025–2026 and 37.93% in 2024–2025, still below the district (38.5%) and state (48.6%).

Rankings tell a similar story: Highview's latest entry is 455 of 480 (5th percentile, 0 stars) for 2023–2024, and Virtual Academy's is 399 of 450 (11th percentile, 1 star) for 2024–2025 — both well below the district's 27th percentile. Note that "—" means the state suppressed a figure to protect student privacy; those values are unknown, not zero. Highview's 2025–2026 reading and science scores are suppressed, as are many Virtual Academy subgroup results. Because Virtual Academy spans grades 6–12 while Highview is 9–12, all-grade comparisons are imperfect.