Best High Schools in Zip Code 56301

ZIP code 56301 in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, has two public high schools serving different grade ranges: Technical Senior High (grades 9–12) and Newport Academy (grades 7–12), both in St. Cloud Public School District.

The two schools are radically different. Technical Senior High enrolls 1,561 students, while Newport Academy enrolls 17. Technical Senior High has a 63.55% free/reduced lunch rate and a 17.9 student-teacher ratio; Newport Academy has 17.65% and 10.2. Technical Senior High’s completion results are stronger than the district’s: an 83.4% graduation rate versus the district’s 67.3%, and a 4.6% dropout rate versus the district’s 8.5%. It is close to the state’s 84.9% graduation and 4.2% dropout rates. Newport Academy reports 0.0% graduation and 0.0% dropout, but with only 17 students in grades 7–12, these rates are hard to interpret and may reflect a tiny or non-traditional cohort. Newport Academy’s school-level test scores are suppressed by the state (—), so its academic performance is unknown, not zero.

In proficiency, Technical Senior High posts 18.8% math, 30.2% reading, and 21.7% science. Those are below state figures (44.9% math, 48.6% reading, 25.5% science) but slightly above the district’s same-grade results: 11th-grade math 16.3%, 10th-grade reading 28.8%, and End-of-Course science 20.4%. Science is a relative strength and improved from 18.44% to 21.7%, while reading fell from 36.77% to 30.2%, a larger decline than the district’s or state’s. Math also slipped (21.24% to 18.8%). The St. Cloud Public School District is ranked 363 of 458, at the 21st percentile with 1 star. Technical Senior High ranks 338 of 473, at the 29th percentile with 1 star, slightly above the district but still in the bottom third statewide; Newport Academy has no rank history. For parents, Technical Senior High is the main comprehensive high school with better-than-district completion and relative science strength, but weak state-level math and reading. Newport Academy is too small and too heavily suppressed in test data to assess academically.