Summary:
High schools in this area come down to a single school: Discovery Public School - Faribault, serving grades 6–12 in Faribault, Minnesota with 45 students. It is also its own district — Discovery Public School - Faribault — so district-level numbers mirror the school's numbers rather than offering a separate benchmark; the state is the meaningful comparison point. About 86.67% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is 7.6, which is very low.
Academically, the school trails the state in every reported subject. In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency was 10.5% in math and 10.7% in reading — roughly 34 to 38 percentage points below state rates — and 12.5% in science, about 13 points below. It currently holds 0 stars and a district rank of 451st of 458, the 2nd percentile. Rank history shows a steep decline: 233rd of 492 at the 53rd percentile with 3 stars in 2018–2019, then 444th of 480 at the 7th percentile with 0 stars in 2023–2024, and 462nd of 473 at the 2nd percentile with 0 stars in 2025–2026. Several grade-level results are suppressed by the state to protect student privacy, so those figures are unknown rather than zero.
Graduation outcomes are a bright spot: an 80.0% graduation rate versus 84.9% statewide, and a 0.0% dropout rate versus 4.2% statewide. 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 only 45 students, percentages can swing widely from year to year. Overall, this school shows favorable dropout results and very small classes, but substantial academic ground to make up, especially in reading and math.
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