Summary:
The Glencoe-Silver Lake School District in central Minnesota contains just one middle school: GSL Junior High School, located at 1621 16th St E in Glencoe and serving grades 7 and 8 with about 224 students. Because it is the district's only middle school, whatever this school posts is the district's grade 7–8 result. It holds a 2-star rating and ranked 333 of 546 Minnesota schools in 2025-2026 (39th percentile).
In 2025-2026, 32.7% of students were proficient in Math, 36.8% in Reading, and 8.5% in Science, against state rates of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. Reading is the biggest mover: it fell 7.2 points from 43.98% to 36.8% while the state slipped only about 1 point, and that decline lines up with the school's ranking drop from 249 of 519 (52nd percentile, 3 stars) in 2024-2025 to its current position. Math (+0.8) and Science (+0.6) were essentially flat. Science is the persistent concern — 7.92% the year before and 8.5% now, two consecutive years in the single digits and only about a third of the state rate.
Grade-level detail shows Math slipping from 35.2% in 7th grade to 30.2% in 8th, while Reading rises from 34.9% to 38.7% — making 8th-grade reading the strongest result in the record and 8th-grade math the weakest. In every subject the district's all-grade rates run higher than the middle school's (Math 46.5 vs. 32.7, Reading 41.6 vs. 36.8, Science 17.9 vs. 8.5), suggesting grades 7–8 lag other levels. With 27.68% free/reduced-price lunch and a 16.3:1 student–teacher ratio, neither measure is extreme, so the science result stands out as a subject-specific issue worth asking about directly.
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