Best Public Schools in Milaca, MN

Milaca, Minnesota is home to five schools — one elementary school serving PK–6, three high schools serving grades 7–12 (including one online program), and one alternative PK–12 school, with no standalone middle school — enrolling 1,736 students in total.

Four of the five schools belong to the Milaca Public School District, which is ranked 196 of 458 Minnesota districts (57th percentile, 3 stars). The fifth, Rum River North, belongs to the Rum River Special Education Coop and has no district rank listed. Enrollment is heavily concentrated: Milaca Elementary (865 students) and Milaca Secondary High (730) together account for about 91.9% of listed students, while the alternative, online, and learning-center schools are very small. Among the larger schools, Milaca Secondary High shows the strongest outcomes: a 94.6% graduation rate and 1.5% dropout rate, both better than the district (92.7% and 1.9%) and the state (84.9% and 4.2%), with science at 25.8% (above the state's 25.5%). Its math (40.4%) and reading (41.7%) remain below state levels, and its rank percentile has slipped from 65 to 62 to 57. Milaca Elementary is largest and mixed: math at 46.5% beats the state's 44.9%, but science at 15.7% falls far below the state's 25.5%, and its rank is 500 of 869 (42nd percentile, 2 stars). Milaca 7-12 Online (28 students) reports 90.0% graduation and 0.0% dropout, but all current test scores are suppressed. Milaca Area Learning Center (16 students) has the highest free/reduced lunch share (75%), the lowest student/teacher ratio (8.4), 70.0% graduation and 10.0% dropout. Rum River North (97 students) posts math at 10.5% and reading at 20%, both well below state.

Overall, the Milaca Public School District trails Minnesota in all three tested subjects in 2025-2026 — reading by 5.0 points (43.6% vs. 48.6%), science by 2.4 points, and math by 1.7 points. Grade-level bright spots include 8th grade math (55.4%) and reading (58%) and 11th grade math (42.5%) at Milaca Secondary High, and 6th grade math (48.3%) and 3rd grade reading (47.4%) at Milaca Elementary. Clear gaps include 5th grade science (15.7% vs. the state's 25.9%) at the elementary school and 7th grade math (25.4% vs. 40.3%) and reading (34.1% vs. 43.5%) at the secondary school. Many values for the smallest schools are marked "—", meaning the state suppressed them for privacy; those are unknown, not zero or evidence of failure. Schools with higher free/reduced lunch percentages tend to show lower available outcomes.