MACCRAY School District

The MACCRAY School District in Minnesota is small, with just two schools serving roughly 722 students: MACCRAY Elementary for pre-kindergarten through 5th grade (320 students) and MACCRAY Secondary for grades 6 through 12 (402 students), so middle-grade students attend the same school as high schoolers. The district is ranked 174th of 458 in Minnesota, about the 62nd percentile, with 3 stars. Both schools serve similar student populations, with free/reduced lunch rates of 45.77% at the secondary school and 45.94% at the elementary school.

The two schools have different strengths. MACCRAY Elementary is the math standout: all-grade math is 53.9% versus 44.9% statewide, and 3rd-grade math reaches 67.8%. MACCRAY Secondary shines in reading (50.9% vs. 48.6% state) and in completion — a 97.8% graduation rate against the state's 84.9%, and a 2.1% dropout rate versus 4.2% statewide. Science is the shared weak spot, with both schools below state and the district at 20.0% against 25.5%. The elementary school's science fell sharply from 30.0% to 17.0% year over year, while the secondary school improved. Elementary 5th grade is a concern in reading (44.2% vs. 54.5%), science (17.0% vs. 25.9%) and math (36.5% vs. 41.9%).

Both schools improved in math and reading while the state slipped slightly. Ranking momentum favors the secondary school, which jumped from 1 star and the 27th percentile to 3 stars and the 55th percentile; the elementary school rose from the 39th to the 49th percentile and remains a 2-star school. Staffing looks different as well, with an elementary student-teacher ratio of 10.0 versus 14.4 at the secondary school.