Summary:
Alexandria, Minnesota is home to seven schools — four elementary, one middle and two high schools — serving roughly 3,698 students. Five of them belong to the Alexandria Public School District, which ranks 55th of 458 districts statewide (88th percentile, 4 stars). The other two are Kalon Prep Academy, a separate high school district, and the small cooperative school Lakes Country Academy - ALEX.
The strongest options sit inside the public district. Discovery Middle School is the top-ranked local school (74th of 546, 86th percentile, 4 stars), with math at 51.3% and reading at 57.7% proficient — near or above district results and clearly above the state. Voyager Elementary (78th percentile) posts 67.3% in math and 59.3% in reading, while Lincoln Elementary leads elementary math at 67.9%, about 23 points above the state. Alexandria Area High School graduates 97.5% of students with a 0.9% dropout rate, far better than the state's 84.9% and 4.2%, and has climbed from the 52nd to the 80th percentile over three years.
The contrasts are sharp. Woodland Elementary School is the weakest public school in the group (42nd percentile, 2 stars), with reading at 43.1% — below both district and state — and the highest free/reduced lunch rate among the public schools at 41.71%. Kalon Prep Academy ranks near the bottom of the state (8th percentile, 0 stars), with proficiency of 7.4% in math, 10% in reading and 7.4% in science, a 76.0% graduation rate and a 10.8% dropout rate; its scores fell sharply from the prior year. Lakes Country Academy - ALEX enrolls just 7 students, so the state suppresses its test results — its academic performance is unknown, not failing.
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