Summary:
Red Wing, Minnesota is home to 11 schools serving roughly 2,597 students across grades PK–12, grouped as 4 elementary, 1 middle, 5 high, and 1 alternative school, and operating within four district contexts: Red Wing Public School District, Goodhue County Education District, Creekstone Montessori Charter, and the Minnesota Department of Corrections. Grade configurations overlap, with buildings spanning K–1 through 12. The four largest schools — Red Wing Senior High, Twin Bluff School, Burnside Elementary, and Sunnyside Elementary — account for about 79% of enrollment; the rest are small specialized, online, or alternative programs with fewer than 70 students each.
The clearest academic standout is Creekstone Montessori, where all-grade reading is 48.0% — essentially at the state average of 48.6% — and science is 50.0%, double the state's 25.5%. It also has the lowest free/reduced-lunch rate at 17.21% and has climbed from the 23rd to the 42nd percentile. Among traditional public schools, Twin Bluff School ranks at the 50th percentile with 3 stars and beats its district in math (35.5%), reading (40.1%), and science (19.0%), with 6th grade math at 42.4% versus the state's 39.5%. Red Wing Senior High has a strong 90.8% graduation rate, above both district and state, while Burnside Elementary shows an all-grade math bright spot at 37.7%.
Outcomes are far weaker in alternative, online, and correctional settings. Tower View ALP reports 0% math, 7.7% reading, and 0% science with a 63.3% graduation rate; Reach Programs reports 2.5% math and a 64.71% free/reduced-lunch rate; MCF-Red Wing Maginnis High School has the highest poverty rate at 94.34% and no current test data; and 5RiversOnline Secondary graduates 65.7% with a 9.2% dropout rate. Some values are suppressed by the state and should be treated as unknown rather than as zero. Poverty tracks with weaker results, but not perfectly — Burnside has a 40.57% free/reduced-lunch rate yet stronger math.
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