Trio Wolf Creek Distance Learning

This area is served by one public school: TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning, a distance-learning high school in Chisago City, Minnesota, with 191 students in grades 9–12. It is also the only school in the TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning district, so district-level figures mirror school-level figures exactly — nothing is averaged across multiple schools. No elementary, middle, or alternative schools appear in this data set, which means families here are looking at a single-school district with one set of outcomes rather than a choice among several campuses.

Compared with Minnesota as a whole, the school's outcomes sit well below state averages. The district is ranked 431st of 458 statewide, in the 6th percentile, with 0 stars, and the 2025–26 school rank is 434th of 473, in the 8th percentile, also with 0 stars. Rank history shows a downward trend: the percentile fell from 17 in 2023–24 to 16 in 2024–25 and then to 8 in 2025–26, while the star rating dropped from 1 star to 0. The graduation rate is 53.6% versus 84.9% statewide, and the dropout rate is 21.9% versus 4.2% statewide — more than five times the state rate.

Test scores are similarly far below state levels. Math proficiency is 0% in 2025–26 for All Grades and for 11th Grade, down from 8.82% in 2024–25, against a state figure of 44.9%. Reading is 19% for All Grades and 10th Grade, below the state's 48.6% and down from 34.78% the prior year, though the exam label changed between years, so that comparison should be read cautiously. Science proficiency is suppressed by the state in both years, so it is unknown here and should not be treated as zero or as a weakness. About one-third of students (32.98%) qualify for free/reduced lunch and the student-teacher ratio is 16.8 — useful context, but the available data does not explain the size of these gaps.