Schools in Lester Park, Duluth, Minnesota
Part of the Lester Park neighborhood guide. Back to the full guide.
Lester Park is in Duluth Public Schools (ISD 709), on the same pathway as Lakeside: Lester Park Elementary, then Ordean East Middle School, then Duluth East High School. Attendance boundaries change, and properties at the far northeastern edge may be assigned to Lakewood Elementary instead, so confirm your specific address with the district rather than relying on a neighborhood-level statement.
Lester Park Elementary sits at 5300 Glenwood Street and enrolls roughly 510 students in K-5 (NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-2025, accessed 2026-08-13). It sits close to the Lakeside line, so it is a short walk for the western blocks and a short drive for the rest. Lakewood Elementary, at 5207 North Tischer Road, is much smaller at about 254 students and serves the rural northeast.
Ordean East Middle enrolls about 1,037 and Duluth East High School about 1,495 (NCES, accessed 2026-08-13). East is roughly five minutes west along Superior Street, close enough that many Lester Park students bike or get dropped on the way to work.
Private schooling from here means committing to a drive. Stella Maris Academy, the city's consolidated Catholic system, has no campus on this end: the nearest is Holy Rosary on East 4th Street, about fifteen minutes west, and St. Michael's parish school in Lakeside was folded into the academy rather than kept local (Stella Maris Academy, accessed 2026-08-13). Marshall School on Rice Lake Road is closer to twenty minutes. For a household at the far east end already absorbing a long commute, adding a school run in the opposite direction is worth mapping honestly before you buy. Private schools are not covered by Minnesota Department of Education report card data, so this guide does not rate them alongside the public schools; three post-secondary institutions sit within twenty minutes.
The neighborhood elementary at 5300 Glenwood Street, on the Lakeside and Lester Park seam.
The small elementary at 5207 N Tischer Road serving the rural northeast edge and Lakewood Township.
The east side high school at 40th Avenue East, about five minutes west along Superior Street.
Duluth's consolidated Catholic academy. The nearest campus is Holy Rosary on E 4th Street, roughly fifteen minutes west.
Independent non-sectarian college prep school at 1215 Rice Lake Road, roughly 20 minutes from Lester Park.
Higher education nearby: University of Minnesota Duluth, College of St. Scholastica, Lake Superior College.
District guide: Duluth Public Schools (ISD 709)
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