Summary:
ZIP code 55437 is home to a single public high school: Jefferson High School in Bloomington, Minnesota. It serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 1,684 students as part of Bloomington Public Schools. Because it is the only high school in the area, there is no neighboring local school to compare it against; the most useful benchmarks are the district, the state, and the school's own results over time.
Jefferson's biggest strengths are completion outcomes and math. Its graduation rate is 89.1%, above both the district (79.1%) and the state (84.9%), and its dropout rate is 3.1%, well below the district (6.6%) and the state (4.2%). The school is rated 3 stars in each of the last three reported school years, while the district is rated 2 stars. In 2025–2026 it ranked 209th of 473 schools (56th percentile), compared with the district's 246th of 458 (46th percentile). Math is the standout subject: 11th-grade proficiency was 51.6%, which is 18.5 points above the district's 11th-grade result and 16.3 points above the state's. Reading at the same grade level (42.2% in 10th grade) is essentially tied with the state's 42.5% and 10.8 points above the district's.
Science is the clearest concern. End-of-Course science proficiency was 23.7%, above the district's 20.4% but 11.3 points below the state's 35.0%, and all-grade science fell from 31.74% to 23.7% — a drop of 8.04 points — while district and state science declined much less. The school's rank percentile has also moved around: 70th in 2023–2024, 52nd in 2024–2025, and 56th in 2025–2026, though the 3-star rating held. The free/reduced-price lunch rate is 27.97% and the student-teacher ratio is 22.7, but no district or state comparison is included, so these cannot be judged as high or low from this data alone.
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