Summary:
Babbitt, Minnesota has two public schools — Babbitt Elementary, which serves grades PK–6, and Northeast Range Secondary, which serves grades 7–12 and therefore also covers middle-grade students. Both belong to the St. Louis County School District and share the same address at 30 South Dr. Enrollment is small, at 95 students in the elementary school and 114 in the secondary school.
The two schools stand out in different ways. Babbitt Elementary's clearest academic strength is science: 43.8% of students were proficient in all-grade science, compared with 17.1% in the district and 25.5% statewide, and its 3rd-grade math result of 63.6% also edged past the district (62.1%) and state (57.9%). Its state rank improved to 572 of 869 schools, the 34th percentile with 2 stars, up from the 26th percentile and 1 star the year before. Northeast Range Secondary's standout is completion rather than test scores: a 100% graduation rate and a 0% dropout rate, both above the district (93.2% and 3.3%) and the state (84.9% and 4.2%).
Both schools, however, trail state averages in most tested subjects, and the district itself sits at the 29th percentile (323 of 458) with 1 star. Babbitt Elementary's all-grade math (30.9%) and reading (38.9%) fall just below district averages (31.7% and 40.8%), and its math and reading scores drop in grades 4 through 6 after a strong 3rd grade. Northeast Range Secondary is below district and state in all three all-grade subjects — math 22.9%, reading 21.9%, science 13.9% — and ranks in the 26th percentile with 1 star; its 7th-grade reading is 0% proficient. The state suppresses the school's 10th-grade reading result, so that figure is unknown, not zero. With such small enrollments, year-to-year swings can be large.
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