Summary:
Waconia, Minnesota is served by 7 schools in the Waconia Public School District — three elementary schools (Southview Elementary, Bayview Elementary, and Laketown Elementary), one middle school (Waconia Middle School), and three high-school-level settings (Waconia High School, Waconia Learning Center, and Transitions 110), with about 3,860 students enrolled. The district ranks 27th of 458 in Minnesota, in the 94th percentile with a 5-star rating.
Laketown Elementary is the strongest elementary, ranking 52nd of 869 schools (94th percentile, 5 stars) and posting the highest elementary proficiency in every subject: math 74.9%, reading 68.8%, and science 43.0%. Waconia Middle School is similarly elite at 32nd of 546 (94th percentile, 5 stars), with math at 64.4% and reading at 63.7%. Bayview Elementary stands out for combining the highest elementary free/reduced-lunch rate (16.04%) and the lowest elementary student-teacher ratio (12.1) with math of 68.8%, reading of 62.7%, and science of 33.3%. All three elementaries exceed state rates of 44.9% in math, 48.6% in reading, and 25.5% in science.
Waconia High School, the largest school at 1,335 students, shows a split profile: science End of Course proficiency is 61.8% versus the state's 35.0%, and graduation is 96.8% with a 0.6% dropout rate, but 11th-grade math (31.1% vs 35.3%) and 10th-grade reading (37.0% vs 42.5%) trail the state. The small settings, Waconia Learning Center (25 students) and Transitions 110 (11 students), serve specialized populations with much higher poverty rates and mostly suppressed or unavailable test data, so conclusions about them should be made cautiously.
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