Summary:
High Schools located in the La Crescent Montessori & STEM School district include a single school: La Crescent Sec Montessori/STEM, a secondary school in La Crescent, MN serving grades 7–12 with 46 students. The district carries a 3-star rating, a district rank of 176th of 458 (62nd percentile), and a 2025–26 rank-history entry of 152nd of 473 (68th percentile). Enrollment is 46, the student/teacher ratio is 9.7, and 34.78% of students were eligible for free or reduced lunch in 2024–25.
The strongest academic signal is reading. All-grades reading proficiency is 72.7%, compared with 67.9% in the district and 48.6% statewide — 24.1 percentage points above the state. Tenth-grade reading is 70%, also 27.5 points above the state's 42.5%. Science is positive at the all-grades level at 35.1% versus the state's 25.5%, though End-of-Course science is 33.3%, slightly below the state's 35%. Math is the clear weak spot at 38.9%, below the district's 42% and the state's 44.9%. The school's reading–math gap is 33.8 points, far wider than the state's 3.7-point gap, making math the clearest instructional priority.
Two cautions shape how these numbers should be read. With only 46 students, percentages swing easily from one cohort to the next, and many grade-level results are suppressed by the state — math for grades 7, 8, and 11; reading for grades 7 and 8; science for grade 8 and for all grades in 2024–25 — so those values are unknown, not zero. Year-over-year gains are large: math rose from 10% to 38.9% and reading from 50% to 72.7%, but the 2024–25 reading exam is labeled MCA-III while 2025–26 is MCA-IV, so that comparison deserves caution. Even with weak math, the 3-star district rating and above-average rank suggest reading and science are carrying the profile.
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