Summary:
Campbell, Minnesota has two public schools — Campbell-Tintah Elementary serving grades PK–6 with 66 students, and Campbell-Tintah Secondary serving grades 7–12 with 49 students — both in the Campbell-Tintah Public Schools district. Together they enroll about 115 students in a very small rural district with no separate middle school or alternative school. The district ranks 222nd of 458 in Minnesota, at the 52nd percentile with 3 stars.
The two schools are moving in opposite directions. The elementary school jumped from the 21st percentile with 1 star to the 50th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026, with Math rising from 22.22 to 42.1 and Reading from 22.22 to 34.2. Its Math and Reading now beat the district (37.1 and 31.7), though Reading remains well below the state's 48.6. The secondary school instead has standout completion outcomes — a 90.0% graduation rate versus the state's 84.9% and a 0.0% dropout rate versus 4.2% — but its 2025–2026 proficiency dropped sharply: Math from 45.45 to 29.2, Reading from 41.67 to 27.3, and Science from 33.33 to 15.4, all below district and state levels in Math and Reading.
Science is the district-wide weak spot: 11.1 in 2025–2026 against the state's 25.5, after being above the state (28.57 vs. 26.15) the year before. Several grade-level scores and elementary Science were suppressed by the state to protect student privacy, so those should be treated as unknown rather than poor. With only 66 and 49 students, a single student can shift a school-wide percentage by roughly 1.5 to 2 points, so both the gains and declines deserve watching over multiple years. Notably, the elementary has the higher free/reduced lunch rate (27.27% vs. 14.29%) and larger classes (11 vs. 8.2 students per teacher) yet showed the stronger improvement.
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