Summary:
Lindstrom, Minnesota has four schools in this data set — one middle school, one high school, two alternative schools, and no elementary schools — enrolling a combined 1,813 students. Nearly all of that enrollment sits with the two Chisago Lakes School District schools: Chisago Lakes Senior High (1,053 students, grades 9–12) and Chisago Lakes Middle (742 students, grades 6–8), together about 99% of listed enrollment. The other 18 students attend two small K–12 alternative schools in the St. Croix River Education District: Pathway to Change (10 students) and Skillbuilding Opportunities for Academy (8 students).
Chisago Lakes Middle is the clear standout, ranked 37 out of 546 schools (93rd percentile, 5 stars) in 2025-2026, up from 88th percentile and 4 stars two years earlier. Its All Grades math (62.4%) and reading (62.8%) are well above the district (51.8% and 53.8%) and state (44.9% and 48.6%), and every grade-level math and reading result beats the state. Science is its soft spot: 21.9% All Grades, below the district's 26% and the state's 25.5%, though its 8th-grade science figure of 21.9% is above the state's 16.7%. Chisago Lakes Senior High shows the opposite pattern: strong completion outcomes — a 93.7% graduation rate and 1.9% dropout rate, both far better than the state's 84.9% and 4.2% — but a ranking slide from 4 stars to 2 stars (45th percentile) and All Grades math and reading below district and state.
The two alternative schools cannot be judged academically here, since all of their school-level test scores are suppressed and should be treated as unknown, not as weak. Both are very small, with low student-teacher ratios of 3.3 and 4.0; Pathway to Change reports a 50% free/reduced lunch rate, while Skillbuilding Opportunities for Academy's is not reported. The district-wide ranking of 162 out of 458 (65th percentile) largely masks the wide gap between the middle and high school, and with no elementary school in this list, younger students are not represented here.
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