Summary:
Cold Spring, Minnesota is home to six schools serving students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade: one elementary, one middle, three high schools, and one alternative school, with a combined enrollment of 2,152 students. Five of them belong to the Rocori Public School District, which ranks 165th of 458 Minnesota districts (64th percentile, 3 stars), while Grafton School belongs to the Benton-Stearns Education District. The three core campuses—Rocori Senior High, Cold Spring Elementary, and Rocori Middle—enroll about 95% of the city's students.
Rocori Middle is the highest-ranked school locally: 143rd of 546 Minnesota middle schools, 74th percentile, 4 stars—the only 4-star rating among Cold Spring schools. Its math (49.9%) and reading (48.4%) are near or above state levels, with 6th-grade reading a standout at 62.4%, but science is a red flag at 13.4%, well below the district's 24.7% and the state's 25.5%, though improved from 7.98% in 2024–2025. Rocori Senior High, the largest school with 824 students, stands out in science (40.2%) and graduation (92.2%, with a 3.8% dropout rate), yet math (35.8%) and reading (38.1%) trail the state; reading fell from 55.56% in 2024–2025, the largest swing in the data, though the exam label changed between years. Cold Spring Elementary (656 students) is strongest in math at 52.7%, above district and state, but its science is 18.9%, below both.
Smaller settings differ sharply. Rocori Online Learning Site (72 students) graduates 77.7% of students with a 14.8% dropout rate, more than three times the state's 4.2%. Rocori Alternative Learning Center (27 students) has a 36.3% graduation rate, a 9.0% dropout rate, and 0% math proficiency. Grafton School (10 students, K–12) has the highest free/reduced lunch rate at 70% and the lowest student-teacher ratio at 5; its 2024–2025 scores were 9.09% in math and 18.18% in reading, and current scores are suppressed. Suppressed values are unknown, not zero, and with so few students a single child can shift a percentage by several points.
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