Summary:
ZIP code 55431, in the Twin Cities suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota, has two middle schools serving grades 6–8, both in Bloomington Public Schools: Oak Grove Middle with 711 students and New Code Academy Middle School with 71 students. Together they enroll 782 middle-schoolers; Oak Grove makes up roughly 91% of that total and is about ten times larger than New Code Academy.
New Code Academy Middle School stands out most in Reading, where its 2025–2026 all-grade proficiency of 52% exceeds Oak Grove's 44.5%, the district's 42.3% and the state's 48.6%. Its 8th-grade Science of 25% also beats the district's 13.7% and the state's 16.7%, and it climbed in rank from 429 of 545 (21st percentile, 1 star) in 2023–2024 to 236 of 546 (57th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026. Math is its clear weak spot: 16.7% all-grade versus 39% district and 44.9% state. It also serves a much higher free/reduced-lunch population (71.83% vs. 37.55%) with a lower student-teacher ratio (11.8 vs. 15.5), and its 6th- and 7th-grade Math and Reading figures are suppressed by the state, so those are unknown rather than zero.
Oak Grove Middle is the larger, more balanced school, with all-grade Math at 39.2% (about the district's 39% but below the state's 44.9%) and Reading at 44.5%. Grade 7 is a bright spot, at 44.3% in both Math and Reading, above the comparable district and state figures. Science is its weakest area at 15.1% all-grade, below the district's 19.9% and the state's 25.5%. Its rank has stayed in the middle to upper-middle, moving from 255 of 545 (53rd percentile, 3 stars) to 222 of 546 (59th percentile, 3 stars). Both schools earned 3 stars in 2025–2026, above the district's 2 stars and 46th percentile.
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