Summary:
Laporte, Minnesota has just one middle school — Laporte Middle School — serving grades 6–8 with about 80 students in the LaPorte Public School District, so every middle-grade student in the city attends this single campus.
Reading is the school's clearest relative strength: 37.3% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, essentially matching the district figure of 37.7% and trailing the state's 48.6% by 11.3 points. Eighth-grade Reading was the school's best result at 41.7%, only 8.3 points below the state. Math and Science are the larger concerns. All-grade Math came in at 22.7% versus 44.9% statewide, and Math proficiency by grade ranged from 20.8% to 24.1% — roughly 16 to 22 points below the state at each grade. Science was the weakest subject at 4% proficient, compared with 19% for the district and 25.5% for the state, and it dropped nearly 10 points from 13.64% the previous year.
The school's ranking has edged upward — 19th percentile in 2023–2024, 23rd in 2024–2025, and 26th in 2025–2026 — yet it still holds a 1-star rating and remains below the district's 2-star, 34th-percentile overall rating. Context cuts both ways: a student-teacher ratio of 10.7 is a favorable resource indicator, while 60% of students qualified for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025. Because enrollment is only 80 students, a handful of students can shift percentages substantially from year to year, so parents should weigh multi-year trends over any single result.
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