Summary:
Lac Qui Parle Valley Schools has exactly one middle-level school: Lac Qui Parle Valley Middle School, which serves grades 5 and 6 to 129 students at 2860 291st Ave in Madison, Minnesota, and belongs to the Lac qui Parle Valley Schools district. Because it is the district's only provider of grades 5–6, there is no other middle school locally to compare it against, so the most useful comparisons are between this school and its own district and the state of Minnesota. About 51.16% of its students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch — a majority — and its 14:1 student–teacher ratio works out to roughly nine teachers for the building. The district overall ranks 295th of 458 in Minnesota.
The school's results split by subject. In 2025–2026, reading proficiency was 38.2%, above the district's 34.7% but below the state's 48.6%, and science was 20.7%, above the district's 18% and 4.8 points behind the state's 25.5% — its smallest state gap. Math went the other way: 29.3% at the school versus 33.5% in the district and 44.9% statewide, making math the only subject where the school trails its own district. Grade-level comparisons widen the reading gap: 5th-grade reading was 40.4% (state 54.5%) and 6th-grade reading 36.4% (state 53.4%). Every test-score figure in this data set is published as an exact number — none were suppressed, bounded, or given as ranges.
Grade 5 outperformed grade 6 in every subject tested: math 35.1% versus 24.2%, and reading 40.4% versus 36.4%. Sixth-grade math, at 24.2%, trails the state comparator of 39.5% by 15.3 points and is the largest, most concentrated gap in the profile. Year over year, all-grade math rose 3.5 points (narrowing its state gap from 19.4 to 15.6 points), science rose 1.0 point, and reading slipped 1.3 points while the state also slipped, leaving that gap essentially unchanged. With about 129 students, one student is worth roughly 0.8 percentage points, so these year-to-year movements equal only a few students and should not be over-read.
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