Summary:
The city of Princeton, Minnesota has 10 schools serving pre-kindergarten through grade 12, all within the Princeton Public School District, ranked 141 of 458 Minnesota districts — the 69th percentile, 3 stars. Total enrollment is 3,189 students. The area lists 3 elementary, 2 middle and 5 high schools, but the high group includes three very small alternative, credit-recovery and transition programs. The four regular schools — Princeton High School, Princeton Middle School, Princeton Intermediate School and Princeton Primary School — enroll 2,994 students, about 93.9% of the total; online and alternative programs account for only 195 students (6.1%).
Among larger schools, Princeton Intermediate School is the academic bright spot: math is 56% proficient and reading 51.5%, both above district and state, and its rank improved from 46th percentile (2 stars) to 58th percentile (3 stars). Its science, at 19.8%, is below district and state. Princeton High School, the largest at 940 students, posts strong science (33.7%), a 94.5% graduation rate and a 2.9% dropout rate, but reading is 34.9% — far below district (47.2%) and state (48.6%) — and its rank fell from 77th to 55th percentile. Princeton Online MN 6-8 holds the highest current rank (77th percentile, 4 stars) but has only 25 students, with strong reading and science and weak math.
Princeton Middle School is stable at 64th percentile with the lowest free/reduced-lunch rate (29.73%), but is below district and state in all three subjects. Science splits by level: the high school and online middle outperform, while the regular middle and intermediate schools lag. Math varies widely, from 56% at Intermediate to 26.1% at Online MN 6-8. Princeton Primary School has the lowest student-teacher ratio (11.1), and many results for the smallest programs are suppressed — unknown, not low.
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