Summary:
There is exactly one high school in the New Century Academy area: New Century Academy, a grades 6–12 school in Hutchinson, Minnesota serving 95 students. It is also its own district, so the school-level and district-level numbers are the same throughout. The setting is small, with a student-teacher ratio of 8.2 in 2024–2025, and 57.89% of students were eligible for free or reduced lunch that year — a majority population with high economic need.
On the measures families often weigh first, the school trails the state. Its district snapshot ranks 438 of 458, in the 4th percentile with 0 stars, and its own rank history sits in the bottom 10–13th percentile across 2023–2024 through 2025–2026 with 1 star each year. The 2024–2025 graduation rate is 68.1% against a state rate of 84.9%, and the dropout rate is 13.6% versus 4.2% statewide — more than three times higher. Reported all-grade proficiency is below state in every subject tested, and it slipped from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: Math fell from 9.09% to 2.6%, Reading from 22.92% to 16.3%, and Science from 18.18% to 6.7%.
Grade-level results for 2025–2026 mix reported zeros with state-suppressed values. Math and Reading for 6th and 7th grade are marked "—" because the state suppressed them to protect student privacy; those figures are unknown, not zero, and should not be read as weak results. Reported as 0% proficient are 11th grade Math, 8th grade Math, 8th grade Reading, and 8th grade Science. The highest reported grade-level result is 10th grade Reading at 26.3%, still below the state's 42.5%. Overall, this is a small, high-need school with a very low student-teacher ratio and outcomes that are consistently below Minnesota averages, most sharply in Math.
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