Summary:
ZIP code 55448 contains three high schools serving a combined 315 students: Paladin Career and Technical High School (grades 9–12, 257 students), Compass-Bell Center (grades 6–12, 37 students) and Compass Online (grades 9–12, 21 students). Paladin alone accounts for 81.6% of enrollment, so this is one larger career and technical school plus two very small programs, both part of Anoka-Hennepin School District.
Paladin is the only school here with graduation and dropout data, and those numbers are concerning: a 55.0% graduation rate against the state's 84.9%, and a 12.0% dropout rate against 4.2%. It ranks 414 of 458 (10th percentile, 0 stars). Proficiency is mostly far below state levels — 2025–26 math 4.9% vs 44.9%, reading 26.5% vs 48.6%, science 6.7% vs 25.5%. The exception is 2024–25 science, at 30% versus the state's 26.15%; the fall to 6.7% the next year is the largest swing in the data. Free/reduced lunch is 61.87% and the student-teacher ratio is 22.8.
Compass-Bell Center has an extremely low student-teacher ratio of 2.2 — over ten times lower than Paladin's — but reports very low proficiency: 0% in math and science and 4.2% in reading for all grades in 2025–26, with 8th grade reading at 10% versus the district's 53.8%. Its free/reduced lunch rate is 70.27%. Compass Online is the smallest school with the highest free/reduced lunch rate, 80.95%; its current test scores are suppressed (—), meaning the state protected those figures rather than showing zero, no student-teacher ratio is reported, and its rank history is outdated (19th percentile, 2012–13 through 2014–15). By contrast, Anoka-Hennepin ranks 184 of 458 (60th percentile, 3 stars) and beats the state in all core subjects. Because grade spans vary and reading test versions changed between years, comparisons should be read with caution.
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