Summary:
Tyler, Minnesota is served by two public schools — both part of RTR Public Schools and both located at 111 County Highway 8 — with RTR Elementary School covering grades PK–5 (266 students) and RTR Secondary School covering grades 6–12 (380 students), for a combined enrollment of 646. There is no standalone middle school or alternative school in the area, so RTR Secondary serves both middle and high school grades. At the district level, RTR Public Schools ranks 158 of 458 in Minnesota, in the 66th percentile with 3 stars.
RTR Secondary School is the clear standout. Its 2024–25 graduation rate is 97.9% and its dropout rate is 0.0%, compared with state figures of 84.9% and 4.2%. It ranked 144 of 473 (70th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026, after a dip to 230 of 450 (49th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–25 and 64 of 480 (87th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–24. Science and reading are strengths: all-grade science is 32.1% versus the state's 25.5%, all-grade reading is 50% versus 48.6%, 8th-grade science is 30% versus 16.7%, 8th-grade reading is 60% versus 50%, and 10th-grade reading is 57.1% versus 42.5%. Math is the relative weak spot, at 40% versus the district's 42.4% and the state's 44.9%.
RTR Elementary School has bright spots but a downward trend, sliding from the 58th percentile (3 stars) in 2023–24 to the 49th (2 stars) in 2024–25 to the 38th (2 stars) in 2025–26. Its all-grade math of 45.9% is above the state's 44.9%, and 5th-grade reading of 60% beats the state's 54.5%, but all-grade reading is 40.7% versus 48.6% and all-grade science is 25% versus 25.5%, while grade-level math in grades 3–5 falls below state. Both schools serve similar shares of economically disadvantaged students (36.84% and 35.26% free/reduced lunch), and RTR Elementary's smaller student-teacher ratio of 10.4 is not translating into higher outcomes than RTR Secondary's 14.3.
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