Best Public Schools in Spring Valley, MN

Spring Valley, Minnesota is home to three listed schools — one elementary (PK–6), one junior/senior high (7–12), and one very small alternative school (K–12) — serving a combined 534 students. The two traditional schools, Kingsland Elementary School and Kingsland Junior/Senior High School, belong to Kingsland Public School District, which is ranked 180 of 458 Minnesota districts at percentile 61 with 3 stars. The alternative school, Enrich Kingsland, belongs to Southern MN Education Consortium.

Kingsland Elementary School is the academic standout: 54.5% proficient in Math (state 44.9%) and 53.3% in Reading (state 48.6%), with 3 stars in each of the last three reported years (percentiles 65, 68, and 62). It is also the largest school, at 306 students. Kingsland Junior/Senior High School has a more mixed profile at 218 students: 38.8% in Math and 14.7% in Science, both below state, and its ranking slipped to percentile 35 with 2 stars. Still, it reports a 92.1% graduation rate and a 2.6% dropout rate, both better than state, with 7th and 8th grade Reading and 7th grade Math above state even as 10th grade Reading, 11th grade Math, and Science End of Course fall below.

Science is the clearest shared challenge: the district posts 18.3% proficiency versus the state's 25.5%, with the high school well below state and the elementary school slightly below. Elementary Math also declined from 60.39% to 54.5% year over year, though it remains above state. Enrich Kingsland cannot be evaluated on achievement, since its Math, Reading, and Science scores are shown as — (suppressed by the state); it serves 10 students, has the lowest student/teacher ratio at 10, and the highest free/reduced lunch rate at 70%.