Summary:
High Schools in ZIP code 55804 consist of two grade 9–12 schools in the Duluth Public School District: East High School, with 1,495 students, and Alternative Learning Center SWS East, with 74 students, together enrolling 1,569 high school students at a shared Duluth address. East accounts for about 95.3% of that enrollment, while the Alternative Learning Center accounts for about 4.7%. The district is ranked 170 of 458, at the 63rd percentile with 3 stars.
East High School is the clear outcome standout. In 2025–2026 it ranked 18 of 473 schools, in the 96th percentile with 5 stars; it also earned 5 stars in 2023–2024 and 4 stars in 2024–2025. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate was 95.9%, compared with 80.3% in the district and 84.9% statewide, and its dropout rate was 1.6%, versus 3.3% district and 4.2% state. In 2025–2026 test scores, Science was its biggest strength: 53.8% proficiency, compared with 33.6% district and 25.5% state. Math rose to 52.7% from 43.94% the prior year, above the 44.9% district and state figures, while Reading was 58.2%, above district 54.7% and state 48.6%. Reading’s exam label changed between years, so that year-over-year comparison should be read with caution.
Alternative Learning Center SWS East stands out for different profile metrics: 36.49% free/reduced lunch, versus 19.67% at East High School, and a student-teacher ratio of 48.6, versus 20.3 at East High School. However, this extract does not include test scores, graduation/dropout rates, or rank history for Alternative Learning Center SWS East; those figures should be treated as not provided, not as zero or evidence of weakness. Overall, ZIP 55804 has one large, high-performing comprehensive high school and one much smaller alternative program with a higher-poverty, higher-ratio profile but insufficient outcome data for academic comparison.
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