Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 55806

ZIP code 55806 in Duluth, Minnesota contains two middle schools serving grades 6–8 — Lincoln Park Middle School and Alternative Learning Center SWS Lincoln Park — both run by Duluth Public School District and both listed at the same address, which means the alternative program operates inside the Lincoln Park campus rather than as a separate building. Together they enroll 671 middle-grade students: 606 at Lincoln Park (about 90% of the area's seats) and 65 at the smaller alternative program.

Lincoln Park Middle School is the only one of the two with published test scores, and its story is improvement from a low base. Its state rank has climbed from the 28th to the 41st percentile over three years, with its star rating rising from 1 to 2. Reading is its relative strength at 42.2% proficient against a state rate of 48.6%, while math is the clear weak spot at 24.7% versus 44.9% statewide — a 20-point gap, and largest in 6th grade (21.7% versus 39.5%). Eighth-grade science (16.5%) is essentially level with the state's 8th-grade figure (16.7%), making it the school's strongest comparison. Math, reading, and science all improved year over year, with science up the most.

Alternative Learning Center SWS Lincoln Park reports no test scores and no rank history, so its academic performance is unknown rather than poor — no conclusions should be drawn either way. It does show the area's highest economic need (69.23% free/reduced lunch versus 54.46% at Lincoln Park), and its reported student–teacher ratio of 73.8 is best treated as a reporting artifact of how alternative programs count staff, not as literal class size. In short: one measured, improving but still below-benchmark comprehensive school, and one small alternative program whose results simply aren't visible in this data.