Summary:
ZIP code 55448 is home to seven schools serving students from elementary through high school — two elementary, one middle, three high, and one alternative school — located mostly in Coon Rapids with one address in Blaine, enrolling 2,481 students, nearly all of them within the Anoka-Hennepin School District, except for Paladin Career and Technical High School, which forms its own single-school district.
Among the area's comprehensive schools, Eisenhower Elementary is the standout, beating both district and state in math (52.5%), reading (56.8%), and science (39.8%), with its rank climbing from the 53rd percentile two years ago to the 68th this year. Northdale Middle is the highest-ranked school in the ZIP, placing 87th of 546 middle schools (84th percentile, 4 stars), with math and reading above district and state. Sand Creek Elementary is the weaker of the two elementaries: it sits in the 41st percentile with 2 stars, trails the district in every subject, and posts 3rd- and 4th-grade reading near 37%. Notably, Eisenhower serves a higher free/reduced lunch share than Sand Creek (53.77% vs 44.7%) yet outperforms it by roughly 8.5 points in math, 12.5 in reading, and 14.4 in science.
The widest gaps appear at Paladin, where math proficiency is 4.9% against the state's 44.9%, graduation is 55% against 84.9%, and the dropout rate is 12% versus 4.2%. Compass-Bell Center reports 0% math, 4.2% reading, and 0% science with only 37 students, so those figures warrant caution. Compass Online has all current scores suppressed and the area's highest free/reduced lunch rate (80.95%), while Anthony Louis House enrolls just 10 students with suppressed scores; for both, missing data means unknown, not poor performance.
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