Summary:
Spring Valley, Minnesota has just one public high school option: Kingsland Junior/Senior High School, which serves grades 7–12 and enrolls 218 students as part of Kingsland Public School District. Because it is the only school in the area, comparisons here are against district and state averages rather than against other local schools. About 25.69% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is 15.3.
The strongest signals are completion outcomes and some middle-grade results. The graduation rate is 92.1% compared with 84.9% statewide, and the dropout rate is 2.6% versus 4.2% statewide. All-grades reading sits at 50.5% against a state figure of 48.6%, with 8th grade reading at 65.8% versus 50% for the state — a 15.8 point advantage. Seventh grade math is also well ahead, at 51.7% versus 40.3% statewide. Year over year, math rose from 29.2% to 38.8% and reading from 46.73% to 50.5%.
Science is the clear weak spot: all-grades science is 14.7% against 25.5% statewide, down sharply from 25.81% the year before. Eighth grade science is 10.5% versus 16.7% state, and End of Course science is 20% versus 35% state. All-grades math (38.8%) trails both the district (48.7%) and the state (44.9%), with 11th grade math at 25.8% versus 35.3% state and 10th grade reading at 33.3% versus 42.5% state. The school's accountability rank slipped from 223 of 480 (54th percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024 to 307 of 473 (35th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026, while the district stands at 180 of 458, 61st percentile, 3 stars. With only 218 students across six grades, grade-level percentages can shift noticeably from one year to the next.
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