Schools in Central Hillside, Duluth, Minnesota
Part of the Central Hillside neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
Central Hillside sits in Duluth Public Schools (ISD 709), and this is a neighborhood where the honest answer is that you must check rather than assume.
The nearest elementary is Myers-Wilkins at 1027 North 8th Avenue East, just over the avenue line in the East Hillside, enrolling about 329 students from prekindergarten through grade 5 (NCES Common Core of Data 2024-2025, accessed 2026-08-14). It is the Hillside's neighborhood school in the ordinary sense and a walk for much of this area, though a walk across the slope rather than up it.
The middle and high pathway is the ambiguous part. The central-corridor boundary runs through this neighborhood, published maps are not clear at this resolution, and addresses here have been assigned differently in different years. The likely path runs west to Lincoln Park Middle School at 3215 West 3rd Street, about 606 students, and then Denfeld High School at 401 North 44th Avenue West, about 951 students. Duluth East High School at 301 North 40th Avenue East, about 1,495 students, is close enough to the line that it has to be checked. Contact ISD 709 with the specific address. This guide is not going to guess.
The district's alternative learning center is at 11 East Superior Street at the foot of the hill, with about 35 students in grades 6 to 12 plus online and independent-study programs at the same address. Those are application programs across the district, not a neighborhood school.
Private options are outside the neighborhood: Marshall School at 1215 Rice Lake Road about ten minutes up the hill, and Stella Maris Academy's campuses east and west. Private schools are not covered by Minnesota Department of Education report card data, so this guide does not rate them alongside the public schools. Both the University of Minnesota Duluth and the College of St. Scholastica are about ten minutes up the hill, and Lake Superior College about the same to the west.
The Hillside elementary at 1027 North 8th Avenue East, in the East Hillside just over the avenue line, and the neighborhood school for most of this area.
The west-side middle school at 3215 West 3rd Street, about ten minutes west along the hillside.
The west-side high school at 401 North 44th Avenue West.
The east-side high school at 301 North 40th Avenue East, listed because the central-corridor boundary runs close enough that assignment must be checked per address.
The district's alternative learning center at 11 East Superior Street, at the foot of the hill downtown. An application program, not an attendance-area school.
Independent non-sectarian college-prep school at 1215 Rice Lake Road, about ten minutes up the hill.
Duluth's consolidated Catholic academy, with campuses east and west of the neighborhood.
Higher education nearby: University of Minnesota Duluth, College of St. Scholastica, Lake Superior College.
Schools next door
Directly below, a four-minute drive or a walkable downhill, with the transit hub, the library, the theaters and most of the restaurants.
Lincoln ParkWest across Mesaba Avenue, the Craft District, at a comparable price with breweries and a creek gorge instead of a hospital district.
East End / EndionEast along the lake, historic housing with lake views at meaningfully higher prices.
Canal ParkDownhill and across the freeway, the lakefront tourism district with the region's flat-ground condominium market.