Summary:
ZIP code 55430 contains 10 schools — four elementary, three middle, and three high schools — enrolling about 3,368 students across Brooklyn Center Community Schools, Minneapolis Public School District, Anoka-Hennepin School District, and KIPP Minnesota Charter School. Poverty is pervasive here: the average free/reduced lunch rate is 82.3%, and two schools are above 90%. Notably, no school in the ZIP reports 2025-26 proficiency above the state average in math, reading, or science.
Evergreen Park Elementary-STEM is the area's academic leader, posting the highest reported all-grade proficiency in the ZIP (math 23.4%, reading 23.5%, science 8.8%) and the highest 2025-26 rank at the 10th percentile with 1 star — though it still trails its own Anoka-Hennepin district averages and the state. Brooklyn Center High School stands out for completion: an 88.1% graduation rate and 3.6% dropout rate, both better than the state (84.9% and 4.2%) and well above its district. Its proficiency, while above the Brooklyn Center district average, remains far below state levels.
Insight School Of Minnesota has the ZIP's highest science proficiency (12.5%) and relatively strong reading (17.9%), plus the best recent rank percentile (28%, 1 star, 2024-25), but its 43.9% graduation rate and 13.5% dropout rate are the weakest among local high schools, and its student-teacher ratio of 18.4 is the highest. KIPP North Star Primary ranks at the 0th percentile and KIPP North Star Academy at the 5th, both with 0 stars and very high poverty rates. Brooklyn Center Early College Academy is the smallest school at 60 students, has the highest poverty rate (95%), and all of its test scores are suppressed; those values should be treated as unknown, not as evidence of failure.
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