Linden Hills

Lake Harriet Lower is an excellent K-3 school in the Minneapolis Public Schools. The academics are well taught and the teachers are very good. However, because it has a very low poverty level, it gets no "extra" resources from the district. Your taxes pay for all the MPS public schools, they don't go directly to Lake Harriet.

We have had our kids go to this school and if I could do it over again I don’t think we would have sent our kids there. It is a small, wealthy, tight knit group with a few outliers. Many kids and parents are nice but more are not. They keep teachers around even if they are old and grumpy (gym teacher) and share their discontent with the kids. I would look at OLG or Anthony before deciding on sending your kids there. The principal situation has been constantly changing over the past 5 years. Teacher turnover rate is pretty high too. Very little diversity. If your kid had a disagreement with a peer which mine did, the principal did very little and was buds with the other kid’s parents so nothing was done. So for the Social Emotional piece, this school failed us. If this sounds personal it is. And it should be for you if you are reading this. You don’t get to have do-overs for your kid’s Elementary school and their experience there. This school is not really a place for education and prep, it’s more of a daycare with a few very good teachers.