Best Public Schools in Kasson, MN

The city of Kasson, Minnesota has six schools serving roughly 2,258 students across grades PK–12, divided between two districts at opposite ends of the state's rankings. Kasson-Mantorville School District runs three comprehensive schools — Kasson-Mantorville Elementary, Kasson-Mantorville Middle School, and Kasson-Mantorville Senior High — enrolling 2,152 students, or 95.3% of the city's total, and ranked 24th of 458 districts statewide (95th percentile, 5 stars). Zumbro Education District operates three small alternative and at-risk programs — Zumbro Area Learning Center, Zumbro Education District Futures/Choice, and Transition 2 Success — together serving 106 students (4.7%) and ranked 457th of 458.

Among the three Kasson-Mantorville schools, reading is strikingly consistent: proficiency spans just two points, from 57.6% at the elementary to 59.4% at the middle and 59.6% at the high school, all above the state's 48.6%. Math varies far more, spanning 35 points — the elementary posts 81.9% (37 points above the state's 44.9%), while the middle school reports 46.7% and the high school 52.8%. The Kasson-Mantorville Senior High ranks 37th of 473 Minnesota high schools (92nd percentile, 5 stars) with a 96.7% graduation rate against the state's 84.9% and a 0.6% dropout rate against 4.2% statewide, plus science proficiency of 45.6% (20.1 points above the state). Its caution flag is reading, which fell 12.5 points year over year, the largest decline in the data set; middle school rankings have slipped three years running.

The Zumbro programs serve very different populations, with free/reduced-lunch rates of 62.7% and 65.6% at two of them versus about 20–24% across Kasson-Mantorville schools, and their tiny student-teacher ratios (2.6 to 5.5) reflect intensive support rather than scale. Zumbro Education District Futures/Choice posted 21.4% in math (up 13.1 points, the biggest gain anywhere) and 25.0% in reading, outpacing the Zumbro Area Learning Center at 0% math and 11.8% reading. Several grade-level scores at both are suppressed by the state, and with cohorts of 15–59 students, single-year swings should be read cautiously.