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Public Schools in Minnesota

2,391 schools · 543 districts · 870,019 students

50%
Average
Avg Proficiency
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Largest Schools in Minnesota

School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.

Wayzata High

Plymouth

3,523 students

Minnetonka Senior High

Minnetonka

3,508 students

Champlin Park High School

Champlin

2,983 students

Blaine High School

Blaine

2,969 students

Minnesota Connections Academy 7-12

Saint Paul

2,889 students

Prior Lake High School

Savage

2,857 students

Eden Prairie Senior High

Eden Prairie

2,833 students

Shakopee High School

Shakopee

2,770 students

Edina Senior High

Edina

2,720 students

Stillwater Area High School

Stillwater

2,647 students

Frequently Asked Questions

Minnesota has 2,391 public schools across 543 districts, serving 870,019 students.

The largest school in Minnesota is Wayzata High with 3,523 students. Minnesota has 2,391 public schools overall.

The average proficiency rate is 50%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.

All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.

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School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.

The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.

The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.