Summary:
The Discovery Public School - Faribault district contains just one school — Discovery Public School - Faribault, a high school in Faribault, Minnesota serving grades 6 through 12. With only 45 students, it is an exceptionally small setting: a student–teacher ratio of 7.6 to 1, roughly six students per grade on average, and 86.67% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch. Because the school and the district are the same entity, every district figure is identical to the school figure, which makes the state averages the only meaningful comparison point.
Academically, results trail the state by a wide margin. In 2025-2026, 10.5% of students met standards in math versus 44.9% statewide, 10.7% in reading versus 48.6%, and 12.5% in science versus 25.5%. Science is the relative bright spot, with a gap roughly one-third the size of the reading and math gaps. Only two grade-level results were reported: 10th-grade reading at 7.1% and End-of-Course science at 7.7%; the state suppressed all other grade-level rows, so those results are unknown rather than evidence of weakness. Rankings tell a similar story: 2nd percentile among Minnesota high schools in 2025-2026 with 0 stars and 7th percentile in 2023-2024, down from the 53rd percentile and 3 stars in 2018-2019 — though that decline is documented across only three data points.
Completion outcomes look stronger than test scores. The graduation rate was 80% in 2024-2025, about 4.9 points below the state's 84.9%, while the dropout rate was 0% against a 4.2% state rate. Year over year, math rose from 0% to 10.5% and science from 0% to 12.5%, while reading slipped from 15.79% to 10.7%. With a cohort this small, a single student can shift a percentage by several points, so these swings should be read with caution. Note also that test scores come from 2025-2026, while graduation, dropout, and lunch data are from 2024-2025.
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