Summary:
NRHEG School District is a two-school Minnesota district serving roughly 762 students — NRHEG Elementary for grades PK–5 (354 students) and NRHEG Secondary for grades 6–12 (408 students) — and it ranks 320th of 458 Minnesota districts, placing it at the 30th percentile with 2 stars.
The two schools perform very differently. NRHEG Elementary is the academic bright spot, especially in math: 54.4% of students are proficient, about 9.5 points above the state, and 3rd-grade math reaches 70.5% versus the state's 57.9%. Its rankings have held steady near the 45th–48th percentile for three years. NRHEG Secondary tells a different story on tests, with math at 16.1% (28.8 points below the state), reading at 31%, and middle-grade math dipping to 8.2% in 6th grade. Science is the district's weakest subject at both schools.
Yet NRHEG Secondary posts strong completion outcomes — a 96.4% graduation rate and 1.7% dropout rate, both far better than the state — showing that test scores and graduation measures do not always move together. Notably, the elementary school has a higher free/reduced lunch rate (42.09% vs 36.76%) and a lower student-teacher ratio (11.4 vs 14.6) than the secondary school, though the data cannot prove that either factor causes the difference in results.
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