Best High Schools in Zip Code 55430

ZIP code 55430 contains three high schools, all within Brooklyn Center Community Schools: Brooklyn Center High School and Brooklyn Center Early College Academy serve grades 9–12, while Insight School Of Minnesota serves grades 6–12, so its data includes middle-grade students. Combined enrollment is 1,108 students — 539, 509, and 60 respectively. Poverty is high across all three, with free or reduced lunch ranging from 68.96% at Insight to 79.04% at Brooklyn Center High School to 95% at Early College Academy.

Brooklyn Center High School stands out for graduation outcomes: an 88.1% graduation rate, above the district's 64.7% and the state's 84.9%, and a 3.6% dropout rate, below both. Yet its test proficiency is low — 11% in math, 15.4% in reading, and 10.4% in science in 2025–2026 — and it ranks 429 out of 473 schools, at the 9th percentile with 0 stars. Insight School Of Minnesota shows the reverse pattern: its reading proficiency is the strongest among reported schools (17.9% in 2025–2026, 26.47% in 2024–2025) and its rank is 326 out of 450, at the 28th percentile with 1 star, but its 43.9% graduation rate and 13.5% dropout rate are severe weaknesses, and its 18.4 student-teacher ratio is the highest of the three.

Brooklyn Center Early College Academy is the smallest school, with 60 students, and the most data-limited: all of its listed 2025–2026 test scores are suppressed, so no proficiency conclusion can be drawn. Still, it has a 0.0% dropout rate, a 58.0% graduation rate, the highest free or reduced lunch rate at 95%, and the lowest student-teacher ratio at 12.2. Across all three schools, every reported proficiency rate trails the state by a wide margin — math from 3.6% to 11% versus 44.9% statewide, reading from 15.4% to 17.9% versus 48.6%, and science from 10.4% to 12.5% versus 25.5%. The district's 64.7% graduation rate sits between very different school outcomes, masking wide variation.