Minnesota school safety

City and district rankings from federal incident data · 2021-22 collection

2,746SCHOOLS

1,115WITH TRUSTED DATA

50RANKED CITIES

Minnesota is a state of small districts. There are 561 of them, and only 47 have enough schools with records complete enough to rank. That is the first thing to understand about this page: most Minnesota districts aren't ranked, and it isn't because anything is wrong with them. A district ranking needs a critical mass of schools whose reported numbers we can actually stand behind. In a state where many districts run a handful of buildings, most never reach it.

The same logic explains the individual school pages. Minnesota had 2,746 schools in the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. We publish a safety score for 1,115 of them. A blank score is not a bad score — it means the school's reported incident numbers were too sparse, for a school of its size, to support a claim either way. We would rather show you nothing than show you a number we don't trust.

What the reporting looks like here

We grade the reporting doubtful — a D or an E — at 182 Minnesota schools. That is 6.6% of the state's schools, against 11.3% nationally. It's worth being precise about what that gap is. It says Minnesota schools filed records that hang together better than the national norm. It does not say Minnesota children are safer than children elsewhere. Our comparison isn't adjusted by state, and differences between states in this collection are differences in paperwork, not in what happens in hallways.

Among ranked districts, Anoka-Hennepin comes out safer than 97% of ranked U.S. districts, with 39 of the schools in its scored set complete enough to score. Bloomington ranks safer than 96%, with 15 scoreable. Roseville is safer than 94% but rests on 5 scoreable schools; Farmington, safer than 91%, on 7; Hopkins, safer than 90%, on 10.

Read those counts. A district built on 39 verified schools is telling you more than one built on 5. The count is part of the finding, not a footnote to it.

Safest ranked cities in Minnesota

Percentile is against all ranked U.S. cities (higher = safer). Only cities with ≥5 trustworthy-data schools are ranked. Home value is Zillow's ZHVI.

#	CITY	SAFETY PCTL	SCHOOLS	HOME VALUE
1	Anoka	98	6 of 11	$339,441
2	Bloomington	97	16 of 23	$370,580
3	Savage	97	5 of 8	$434,922
4	Coon Rapids	96	12 of 14	$337,326
5	Farmington	93	7 of 10	$406,892
6	Eagan	89	12 of 15	$408,530
7	Stillwater	88	6 of 15	$459,967
8	Oakdale	86	6 of 7	$362,942
9	Cottage Grove	86	8 of 13	$404,733
10	Brooklyn Center	84	7 of 16	$304,542
11	Burnsville	82	8 of 14	$375,754
12	Brooklyn Park	82	17 of 27	$354,606
13	Albert Lea	82	7 of 10	$185,100
14	Woodbury	82	10 of 20	$466,549
15	White Bear Lake	81	10 of 21	$366,383
16	Cloquet	80	5 of 10	$269,238
17	Minnetonka	78	10 of 20	$496,328
18	Owatonna	72	6 of 12	$302,292
19	Eden Prairie	71	8 of 14	$512,269
20	Red Wing	70	5 of 12	$293,135
21	Lakeville	69	10 of 19	$493,681
22	Maple Grove	69	6 of 15	$432,568
23	Winona	66	9 of 14	$264,050
24	Blaine	65	11 of 14	$388,347
25	Apple Valley	65	12 of 19	$383,279
26	Saint Cloud	65	14 of 16	$261,855
27	Saint Michael	62	6 of 9	$437,876
28	Saint Paul	57	93 of 157	$301,096
29	Alexandria	55	6 of 9	$299,940
30	Bemidji	54	13 of 19	$222,500
31	Rosemount	54	8 of 15	$439,658
32	Maplewood	51	6 of 12	$351,949
33	Plymouth	50	11 of 21	$518,483
34	Forest Lake	50	7 of 14	$434,497
35	Minneapolis	49	58 of 131	$336,624
36	Shakopee	49	5 of 14	$412,597
37	Richfield	41	10 of 18	$354,994
38	Mankato	40	8 of 15	$311,041
39	Austin	38	11 of 15	$191,405
40	Chaska	30	10 of 16	$489,384
41	Cambridge	29	5 of 14	$332,869
42	Hastings	28	6 of 11	$388,896
43	Rochester	28	24 of 42	$348,286
44	Moorhead	27	6 of 13	$290,230
45	Willmar	24	6 of 13	$247,424
46	Elk River	17	10 of 19	$401,290
47	Faribault	17	10 of 17	$308,774
48	Hutchinson	15	5 of 9	$303,437
49	Duluth	15	15 of 33	$303,635
50	Sauk Rapids	13	5 of 6	$307,388

Safest ranked districts

#	DISTRICT	SAFETY PCTL	SCHOOLS
1	Anoka-Hennepin Public School Dist.	97	39 of 47
2	Bloomington Public School District	96	15 of 21
3	Roseville Public School District	94	5 of 12
4	Farmington Public School District	91	7 of 8
5	Hopkins Public School District	90	10 of 12
6	Wayzata Public School District	90	9 of 15
7	Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan	89	28 of 38
8	Alexandria Public School District	87	6 of 9
9	Stillwater Area Public Schools	85	9 of 13
10	South Washington County Schools	82	17 of 27
11	Burnsville Public School District	82	11 of 16
12	Albert Lea Public School District	78	7 of 10
13	Red Lake Public School District	77	5 of 8
14	White Bear Lake School District	76	11 of 19
15	Cloquet Public School District	75	5 of 8
16	Winona Area Public School District	73	6 of 10
17	Osseo Public School District	67	13 of 30
18	Owatonna Public School District	66	6 of 11
19	West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan	65	5 of 12
20	Eden Prairie Public School District	65	8 of 12
21	St. Michael-Albertville Schools	64	8 of 11
22	St. Louis County School District	61	8 of 9
23	St. Cloud Public School District	61	15 of 19
24	Bemidji Public School District	59	10 of 13
25	Lakeville Public School District	59	9 of 18

Every Minnesota city with schools

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