Summary:
Glencoe, Minnesota has four schools with a combined listed enrollment of about 1,001 students, spanning grades PK–2, 7–8, and 9–12, with no listed school serving grades 3–6. Glencoe-Silver Lake School District operates three of the four schools, enrolling 982 students (about 98.1%), while SWWC Alternative Learning Center is the only school outside the district, with 19 students. The area summary lists one elementary, one middle, and two high schools and zero alternative schools, even though SWWC has “Alternative” in its name and is classified as a high school.
The largest school is Glencoe-Silver Lake Senior High (468 students), which fell sharply in 2025–2026 to 362 of 473 (23rd percentile, 1 star), after 198 of 450 (56th percentile, 3 stars) and 179 of 480 (63rd percentile, 3 stars) in prior years. GSL Junior High School (224 students) ranks 333 of 546 (39th percentile, 2 stars), nearly matching the district’s 274 of 458 (40th percentile, 2 stars). Lincoln Elementary (290 students, PK–2) has no test scores or rank listed, which is expected for its grade span.
Science is the clearest weakness: the senior high posted 17.3% proficiency and the junior high 8.5%, against the state’s 25.5%; the junior high’s 8th-grade science score was 8.5% versus the state’s 16.7%. The senior high also sat 21.0 points below state in math and 25.6 points in reading. Its bright spot is completion: a 96.0% graduation rate and 2.4% dropout rate, versus the state’s 84.9% and 4.2%. Free/reduced lunch ranges from 27.68% at the junior high to 63.16% at SWWC, whose school-level scores are suppressed by the state and should be treated as unknown, not zero. Student-teacher ratios are lowest at SWWC (9.4) and Lincoln (12.2) and highest at the senior high (19.8).
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