Summary:
Tracy, Minnesota is served by two public schools in the Tracy Area Public School District: Tracy Elementary, which covers grades PK–6 with 359 students, and Tracy Secondary, which covers grades 7–12 with 311 students. Together they enroll 670 students, and there is no separate middle school in the city. Both schools rank above average statewide, and the district itself sits in the 74th percentile of Minnesota districts.
Tracy Elementary is the more consistent academic performer. It earns 4 stars and ranks in the 75th percentile, up from 3 stars and the 64th percentile the year before. Its all-grade proficiency beats the state in every subject: math at 59.7% versus 44.9%, reading at 57.5% versus 48.6%, and science at 33.3% versus 25.5%. Third-grade math reaches 77.3% against a state figure of 57.9%, the highest proficiency number in the data, and reading stays above state across grades 3–6. It does this while serving a higher free/reduced lunch rate (54.87%) and keeping a lower student-teacher ratio (12.5) than the secondary school.
Tracy Secondary tells a different story: 5 stars and a 90th-percentile rank, a leap from the 58th percentile, alongside a 90.5% graduation rate and a 1.8% dropout rate — both better than state averages. Upper grades are strong, with 10th-grade reading and End of Course science each at 57.1%, well above state. But grades 7–8 lag: 7th-grade math is 24.6% versus 40.3%, and 8th-grade science is 9.5% versus 16.7%, which pulls down its all-grade math (31.4%) and reading (43.9%). Parents should weigh the excellent high school completion outcomes against the clear middle-grade gaps.
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