Summary:
Long Lake, Minnesota is a small Hennepin County city on the western edge of the Twin Cities metro, and its four public schools — two elementary, one middle, and one high school — all belong to the Orono Public School District, which serves roughly 2,955 students and is rated 13th of 458 districts in Minnesota (97th percentile, 5 stars). Orono Senior High covers grades 9–12 with 961 students; Orono Middle serves grades 6–8 with 720; Orono Intermediate Elementary serves grades 3–5 with 663; and Schumann Elementary serves PK–2 with 611. Free/reduced lunch rates range from 6.87% to 10.09%, a notably low-poverty profile.
Orono Middle is the academic standout: it ranked 11th of 546 Minnesota middle schools in 2025–2026 (98th percentile, 5 stars) and has held 5 stars for three straight years. It also recorded the highest reading proficiency among tested schools at 73.7%, with 6th-grade reading at 82.1% against a state figure of 53.4%. Orono Intermediate Elementary is close behind — top math (78.9%) and science (41.3%) scores, 33rd of 869 (96th percentile, 5 stars) for a third straight 5-star year, and a 3rd-grade math score of 88.1%, the highest single score in the data, far above the state's 57.9%.
Orono Senior High posts exceptional completion outcomes — a 98.2% graduation rate versus 84.9% statewide and a 0.4% dropout rate versus 4.2% — but its latest rank slipped to 84th of 473 (82nd percentile, 4 stars) from 20th of 450, alongside reading falling from 66.18% to 48.8% and science from 47.89% to 35.6%. Schumann Elementary has no test or rank data because it serves the earliest grades; its strengths are the lowest free/reduced lunch rate (6.87%) and lowest student/teacher ratio (14.9). One caveat: "all grades" covers different tested grades at different school levels, and the reading exam changed between years.
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