Southwest High School

Overview

Southwest High School, established in 1940, is a public high school in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis, part of Minneapolis Public Schools -- one of 10 high schools in the district (5,963.65 total staff district-wide per NCES data). It offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.

Academics

No independently verified Minnesota state assessment data (via the Minnesota Report Card) was located for this profile; check the Minnesota Department of Education's site directly for current school-level results.

Neighborhood

Linden Hills is a residential neighborhood near Minneapolis's Chain of Lakes, in Hennepin County. Multiple independent sources specifically and consistently name Linden Hills as one of Minneapolis's safer, more family-oriented neighborhoods.

Crime & safety

Citywide Minneapolis crime data is elevated across every source checked (roughly 65 crimes per 1,000 residents, about 197% above the national average by one measure, with sources describing it among the highest citywide crime rates in the country), but Linden Hills-specific data tells a genuinely different story: an A- grade for violent crime specifically (79th percentile, safer than most neighborhoods nationally), though property crime for the same neighborhood came back lower, at a C grade (39th percentile). Multiple independent sources -- not just one -- specifically and repeatedly name Linden Hills, along with nearby Fulton and the Lake Harriet area, as among Minneapolis's safest and most family-oriented neighborhoods, in contrast to serious crime concentrated on the city's north side.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score. Based on the 1 of 3 possible components we could source for this school (safety, genuinely neighborhood-specific and well-corroborated here), we're still not showing a partial numeric rating -- 1 of 3 remains below our threshold. See our ratings methodology.

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