Saint Paul
Minnesota's 2024 Graduation Rebound Cut Non-Graduates by 445
Minnesota's four-year graduation rate rose from 83.3% for the Class of 2023 to 84.2% for the Class of 2024, a gain of 0.9 percentage points. The number of graduates increased by 1,427, from 58,293 to ...
No Group Over 28%: Inside Saint Paul's Rare Balance
Correction (August 20, 2026): An earlier preview mixed district and campus rows in a charter enrollment comparison and compared a concentration index across a changing category universe. Those claims ...
Minneapolis: Nearly Half of Students Were Chronically Absent at COVID Peak
In 2021-22, 47.0% of Minneapolis Public Schools students were chronically absent. The published count was 14,147 students out of enrollment of 30,115.
Rochester Improved Attendance Faster Than Minnesota Since 2021-22, but Still Led Large Districts in Chronic Absence
Correction: This version restores the earlier Rochester report and adds Bloomington to the large-district comparison. Rochester's improvement since the subsequent high point remains, but the full avai...
Five Years Later, Minnesota Is Still at the COVID Floor
Correction (July 23, 2026): An earlier version said no large district had returned to pre-pandemic enrollment, which its own examples contradicted. Eight of the state's 26 large districts, including W...
Minnesota's Hispanic Enrollment Drops for the First Time in 18 Years
For 18 consecutive years, Hispanic enrollment in Minnesota moved in one direction. From 48,269 students in 2006-07 to 101,440 in 2024-25, the growth never paused, not even during the pandemic. No othe...