Summary:
Onamia, Minnesota is served by seven schools covering PK through 12th grade — two elementary, one middle, two high, and two alternative campuses — enrolling 681 students total across the Onamia Public School District (six schools, 556 students) and the separate Nay-Ah-Shing School district (125 students). The largest is Onamia High School at 224 students, and the smallest is Success at just 7. Economic need is a consistent backdrop: every school reporting free/reduced-lunch data is above 74.62%, and Nay-Ah-Shing School is nearly universal at 97.6%.
Performance varies widely between schools. Onamia High School is the strongest-ranked current campus, rising from the 8th to the 23rd percentile in 2025–26, though still bottom-quartile. Its 2024–25 graduation rate of 86.9% beats the district's 80.0% and slightly tops the state's 84.9%, and its 4.3% dropout rate is close to the state's 4.2%. Onamia Elementary School has moved the other way, falling to the 6th percentile with 0 stars, a 0% science proficiency, and reading dropping from 28.69% to 18.8%. Onamia Academy posts the highest math proficiency among Onamia schools with 2025–26 data at 22.2%, above the district's 17.1%, but its reading (11.8%) and science (10%) are low, and its student/teacher ratio of 42.8 is a striking outlier. No tested Onamia school reaches the state average in any subject; Onamia High School's 20.8% science comes closest to the state's 25.5%.
Data coverage is uneven, so comparisons should be made carefully. Kokesh Area Learning Center has all 2025–26 test scores suppressed, while Nay-Ah-Shing School and Onamia Primary School have no current test or rank data. Success has only one visible result, 2024–25 reading at 10%. Suppressed or missing values are unknown, not zero, and older rank figures should not be blended with current results.
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