Summary:
Glencoe-Silver Lake School District in Minnesota contains just one high school, Glencoe-Silver Lake Senior High, which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 468 students. The district as a whole ranks 274 of 458 in Minnesota, placing it at the 40th percentile with 2 stars. Because there is only one high school here, there are no within-district peer high schools to compare it against; families should instead weigh the school's results against state averages and its own prior years.
The school's completion outcomes are a clear strength. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate is 96.0%, well above the state's 84.9%, and its dropout rate is 2.4%, lower than the state's 4.2%. For context, 28.85% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is 19.8. Test proficiency, however, tells a different story: in 2025–2026 the school fell below the state in every subject, with all-grade Reading at 23.0%, Math at 23.9%, and Science at 17.3%, compared with state figures of 48.6%, 44.9%, and 25.5%. The largest gap was Reading, 25.6 points below the state.
The decline over one year is striking. Reading dropped from 50.48% to 23.0%, Science from 31.68% to 17.3%, and Math from 32.04% to 23.9%, while state scores barely moved. Science had been a bright spot in 2024–2025, above both district and state, then fell below both. Math has been the most consistent weakness, below the state in both years. The school's ranking mirrors this slide: from 179 of 480 (63rd percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024, to 198 of 450 (56th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025, to 362 of 473 (23rd percentile, 1 star) in 2025–2026. Note that graduation and dropout data are from 2024–2025, the latest test scores and rank are from 2025–2026, and the Reading exam changed labels between those years.
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