Summary:
International Falls, Minnesota has three listed schools serving roughly 940 students combined, spanning pre-kindergarten through 12th grade even though the area reports no standalone middle school. Falls Elementary serves PK–6 with 425 students, Falls High serves grades 7–12 with 489 students, and Int'l Falls Independent School District (Isd) 361 Alternative Learning Center P serves grades 6–12 with just 26 students. The first two belong to International Falls School District, ranked 290 of 458 Minnesota districts at the 37th percentile with 2 stars; the alternative program belongs to Northland Learning Center, which has no district rank listed.
Falls Elementary has the stronger academic profile. Its 2025–26 all-grades reading proficiency is 52.0%, above the district's 46.4% and the state's 48.6%, and its math is 42.6%, above the district's 36.9% and only slightly below the state's 44.9%. Grade-level results show 4th- and 6th-grade reading and 6th-grade math above state averages, while 5th-grade math (25% vs. the state's 41.9%) and science (16.7% vs. 25.5%) trail. Falls High sits below the state in all three tested subjects in 2025–26 — math 29.5%, reading 39.3%, science 6.1% — including 8th-grade math at 18.8% and 8th-grade science at 0%. Even so, its completion metrics are excellent: a 98.1% graduation rate and 1.8% dropout rate, far better than the state's 84.9% and 4.2%.
Science is the clearest local weak spot, falling sharply year over year at both schools. The alternative program's school-level math and reading scores are suppressed (—) and its student-teacher ratio is blank, so its academics are unknown; its 60.0% graduation rate and 13.3% dropout rate are below its district and the state, though with only 26 students these figures are difficult to compare directly.
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