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This Is the Best School in The Minneapolis-St. Paul Area



imageforentry18 qcw Parents want the best for their children, including the best school experience. This, of course, includes getting good grades and performing well on state and college entry exams, but that is not all.

Students also benefit from a positive school culture, participating in extracurricular activities, having individualized attention from teachers and counselors, and learning in a diverse environment.

Though there are hundreds of excellent schools across the country, each major city and metropolitan area has one school that stands out as the best in its area.

Mounds Park Academy ranks as the top school in the top school in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The private pre-K through 12th grade academy received an A+ overall grade from school data platform Niche as well as top marks for its academics, teachers, clubs and activities, and college prep.

Mounds Park Academy has an enrollment of 562 and a student-to-teacher ratio of 7:1, compared to a nationwide ratio of 17:1. This gives students a better chance to have their questions answered and issues addressed as well as allowing teachers to connect better with their pupils.

To determine the best schools by city, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 2022 K-12 School & District Rankings from Niche, a platform for education data. The Niche ranking is based on academic and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education as well as reviews submitted to Niche. City boundaries are based on Census Bureau definitions for places. We identified the best school in every city for the 50 largest U.S. cities based on five-year population data from the Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey.

Area School Grades offered Student-to-teacher ratio Students
New York City Area Trinity School K-12 6:1 1,001
Los Angeles Area Harvard-Westlake School 7-12 8:1 1,625
Chicago Area University of Chicago Laboratory Schools PK, K-12 8:1 2,051
Houston Area St. John’s School K-12 7:1 1,258
Phoenix Area Phoenix Country Day School PK, K-12 7:1 750
Philadelphia Area Germantown Friends School PK, K-12 6:1 1,070
San Antonio Area Keystone School PK, K-12 8:1 495
San Diego Area The Bishop’s School 6-12 8:1 800
Dallas-Fort Worth Area St. Mark’s School of Texas 1-12 7:1 903
San Jose, CA The Harker School PK, K-12 10:1 1,975
Austin Area St. Stephen’s Episcopal School 6-12 6:1 696
Jacksonville Area Stanton College Preparatory 9-12 19:1 1,575
Columbus Area The Columbus Academy PK, K-12 8:1 1,085
San Francisco Area The Nueva School PK, K-12 4:1 605
Fort Worth, TX Trinity Valley School PK, K-12 9:1 1,017
Indianapolis Area Park Tudor School PK, K-12 7:1 950
Charlotte Area Providence Day School PK, K-12 11:1 1,788
Seattle Area Lakeside School 5-12 9:1 838
Denver Area Kent Denver School 6-12 8:1 740
Washington, D.C. Area Georgetown Day School PK, K-12 6:1 1,075
Boston Area Phillips Academy 9-12 5:1 1,146
El Paso Area Radford School PK, K-12 9:1 221
Detroit Area Cranbrook Schools PK, K-12 7:1 1,659
Nashville Area University School of Nashville K-12 9:1 1,071
Memphis Area St. Mary’s Episcopal School PK, K-12 8:1 827
Portland Area Catlin Gabel School PK, K-12 9:1 779
Oklahoma City Area Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics 11-12 6:1 150
Las Vegas Area The Meadows School PK, K-12 9:1 910
Louisville Area DuPont Manual High School 9-12 N/A N/A
Baltimore Area The Bryn Mawr School PK, K-12 6:1 705
Milwaukee Area Brookfield Academy PK, K-12 8:1 842
Albuquerque Area Albuquerque Academy 6-12 8:1 1,163
Tucson Area BASIS Oro Valley 6-12 6:1 626
Fresno Area University High School 9-12 25:1 477
Sacramento Area Sacramento Country Day School PK, K-12 8:1 507
Mesa, AZ BASIS Mesa K-12 28:1 823
Atlanta Area The Westminster Schools K-12 6:1 1,870
Kansas City Area The Pembroke Hill School PK, K-12 8:1 1,177
Omaha Area Brownell Talbot School PK, K-12 9:1 441
Long Beach, CA California Academy of Mathematics & Science 9-12 28:1 659
Colorado Springs Area Fountain Valley School 9-12 7:1 241
Raleigh Area North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics 11-12 7:1 680
Miami Area Ransom Everglades School 6-12 7:1 1,130
Virginia Beach, VA Cape Henry Collegiate PK, K-12 11:1 949
Oakland, CA The College Preparatory School 9-12 7:1 373
Minneapolis-St. Paul Area Mounds Park Academy PK, K-12 7:1 562
Tulsa Area Holland Hall PK, K-12 7:1 1,009
Arlington, TX The Oakridge School PK, K-12 9:1 768
New Orleans Area Benjamin Franklin High School 9-12 20:1 997
Wichita, KS Wichita Collegiate School PK, K-12 9:1 846



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