Summary:
Zip code 55446 contains two high schools serving grades 9–12, both in the Wayzata Public School District: the large comprehensive Wayzata High with 3,781 students and the small alternative The Alternative Program (TAP) with 142 students, together enrolling 3,923 high-schoolers.
Wayzata High is the clear standout, ranked 7th of 473 Minnesota high schools in 2025–2026 — 99th percentile, 5 stars — after 6th of 450 and 4th of 480 in the two prior years. Its graduation rate is 97.2% and its dropout rate 0.4%, well ahead of the state's 84.9% and 4.2%. Proficiency is far above both district and state: Math 77.9%, Reading 72.2%, and Science 57.9%, compared with state marks of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. Scores slipped from 2024–2025 (Math 80.17%, Reading 78.7%, Science 62.25%) but remain high; because the Reading exam changed from MCA-III to MCA-IV, that year-over-year Reading comparison should be read cautiously.
TAP's profile is very different: a 60.56% free/reduced-lunch rate versus 16.4% at Wayzata High, and a student-teacher ratio of 59.4 versus 21.7. Its available rank history is older and lower (421st of 492, 14th percentile, 1 star in 2018–2019), and its current Reading and Science scores are suppressed by the state (shown as —), which means unknown rather than zero. In 2018–2019 it had a 90.9% graduation rate and a 0.0% dropout rate. Because of differing data years, differing program missions, and suppressed scores, direct academic comparison between the two schools is limited; the district itself ranks 10th of 458, in the 98th percentile with 5 stars.
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