Summary:
The Minnewaska School District in Minnesota serves roughly 1,292 students across five schools: one elementary (PK–3), two middle schools (grades 4–6 and 7–8), one secondary school (7–12), and one K–12 alternative academy. The district is rated highly overall, ranking 18 of 458 districts, in the 96th percentile, with 5 stars. In 2025–2026 it outperformed the state in math by 19.2 points, reading by 14.7 points, and science by 12.0 points.
Among individual schools, Minnewaska Area Elementary posts the district's highest math proficiency at 83.5%, 38.6 points above the state's 44.9%, plus reading at 63.5%. Minnewaska Area Intermediate School leads in reading at 75.6% — 27.0 points above the state — with 6th grade reading at 84.5%, though 5th grade math dips to 43.4% and its student/teacher ratio of 25.2 is the district's highest. Minnewaska Secondary stands out for a 95.0% graduation rate and 1.0% dropout rate against state figures of 84.9% and 4.2%, plus science proficiency of 54.2%, more than double the state's 25.5%; its math (45.3%) and reading (51.1%) are above state but below district averages.
Minnewaska Area Junior High has improved to 62nd of 546 schools, with math at 63.3% and reading at 53.7%, both above state, but science is its weak spot at 20.2%, below both the district (37.5%) and state (25.5%). Minnewaska Area WIN Academy serves a very different population with 70.45% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch; its proficiency is far lower (math 12%, reading 20%, science 0%), and many grade-level results are suppressed by the state, so its scores are not directly comparable. District-wide, math and reading improved while science was essentially flat.
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