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Education in the US State of Minnesota comes from a number of public and private sources and encompasses pre-Kindergarten to post-secondary levels. Minnesota has a literate and well-educated population; [1] the state ranked 13th on the 2006–07 Morgan Quitno Smartest State Award, and is first in the percentage of residents with at least a high school diploma.
Map of Minnesota School Districts. This is a complete list of school districts in the State of Minnesota. All school districts in the state are counted as independent governments by the U.S. Census Bureau. No school districts in the state are dependent on any county government or municipal government. [1]
Hamline University, the first and oldest college in Minnesota, was founded in Saint Paul in 1854. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1991, Minnesota became the first state in the United States to pass legislation allowing the existence of charter schools .
There are nearly 200 post-secondary institutions in the U.S. state of Minnesota. [1] The Twin Cities campus of the public University of Minnesota is the largest university in the state with 54,890 enrolled at the start of the 2023–24 academic year, making it the ninth-largest American campus by enrollment size. [2]
Living alumni total more than 70,000. The 2017 Academic Ranking of World Universities listed CEHD as the top public school of education in the world. U.S. News & World Report in its 2016 Best Grad School rankings rated University of Minnesota's CEHD No. 11 among public institutions and tied for twenty-first overall. [1]
The school district educates more than 10,000 students across 14 schools, and is the 12th largest school district in the state of Minnesota. Data released in August, 2008 showed that students in the school district scored above the state average on the MCA-II science test at all levels tested – 5th grade, 8th grade and at Burnsville High School.
The Faribault Public Schools comprise the public elementary and secondary schools and other educational facilities in and near the city of Faribault, Minnesota, United States. The school district, ISD #656, includes the city and surrounding rural communities. [ 1 ]
ISD 279 provides public education from the primary to secondary levels in the following to parts of Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Maple Grove, Osseo, Plymouth, Corcoran, Dayton and Rogers. District 279 is the fifth largest district in Minnesota, with a student population of approximately 20,900 in 2019.