Summary:
Canby, Minnesota is a small community served by two schools in the Canby Public School District: Canby Elementary, which covers grades PK–6 with 304 students, and Canby Secondary, which covers grades 7–12 with 300 students, for a total listed enrollment of 604. The district as a whole ranks 257 of 458 in Minnesota, placing it at the 44th percentile with 2 stars — a figure that blends a relatively strong elementary school with a struggling secondary school.
Canby Elementary is the standout, rated 3 stars in each of the past three rank-history years and sitting at the 66th percentile (293 of 869 statewide) in 2025–26. Its all-grade proficiency beats both the district and the state in Math (55.8% vs 40.6% district and 44.9% state) and Reading (58.3% vs 49.7% and 48.6%). Grade-level results are especially strong early on: 3rd Grade Math at 87.2% against a state figure of 57.9%, 4th Grade Math at 70.0%, 3rd Grade Reading at 66.7%, and 6th Grade Reading at 65.1%. The weak spots are later elementary math — 5th grade 32.4% and 6th grade 32.6%, both below state — and science, where 20.6% falls short of the state's 25.5%.
Canby Secondary tells a more mixed story. Its completion outcomes are excellent — a 96.3% graduation rate versus the state's 84.9% and a 0.0% dropout rate versus 4.2% — yet test proficiency is low: Math 23.9%, Reading 40.4%, and Science 10.1%, all below district and state. The sharpest change is science, which fell from 31.65% in 2024–25 to 10.1% in 2025–26, a drop of 21.55 percentage points, with 8th Grade Science at just 3.8% against the state's 16.7%. Secondary math is low at every grade level (7th 27.7%, 8th 26.4%, 11th 16.7%). Both schools serve similar socioeconomic contexts, with free/reduced lunch around 40%, though the elementary has a more favorable student/teacher ratio (13.0 vs 18.1). The secondary school improved from 1 star in 2024–25 to 2 stars in 2025–26.
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