Summary:
Adams, Minnesota is served by four listed schools covering PK–12. Three belong to the Southland Public School District — Southland Elementary, Southland Middle, and Southland Senior High — and Success East, a K–12 alternative school, is part of the Southern MN Education Consortium. Total listed enrollment is 536 students. The district is ranked 140 of 458 in Minnesota, at the 69th percentile with 3 stars. A dash in the test-score data means the state suppressed the value for privacy — treat it as unknown, not weak.
Southland Senior High is the strongest overall: 83 of 473 schools in 2025–2026, 82nd percentile, 4 stars, and 4 stars in each of the past three years. Graduation is 97.1% versus the state's 84.9%, and the dropout rate is 0.0% versus 4.2%. Reading (69.6% vs. 48.6%) and science (60% vs. 25.5%) far exceed state averages, though math is a real weakness at 20% versus 44.9%. Southland Elementary is improving, rising from the 36th to the 58th percentile and from 2 to 3 stars in two years, with math at 56.6% and 4th-grade math at 72.4%. Southland Middle is declining, from the 62nd to the 50th percentile, with proficiency below state in all three subjects.
Success East enrolls just 16 students and has the highest free/reduced lunch rate (81.25%) and lowest student–teacher ratio (4.5), but its school-level scores are state-suppressed, so its academics cannot be judged. District-wide, reading (50.2% vs. 48.6%) and science (36.4% vs. 25.5%) top state levels while math (41.2% vs. 44.9%) trails. Poverty and student–teacher ratios do not map neatly onto outcomes, and the middle school's steady 3 stars have masked a 12-percentile-point slide.
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