Summary:
The area served by TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning contains exactly one high school — TRIO Wolf Creek Distance Learning, a distance-learning school in Chisago City, MN serving grades 9–12 with 191 students. Because the school and its district share the same name and the same results, district-level and school-level figures are identical wherever both are reported, so there is no second school in this area to compare against. Families considering it should read every number below as a description of this one school.
Academically, the school ranks near the bottom of Minnesota high schools: 431 of 458 with a 6th percentile and 0 stars, and its latest rank history is 434 of 473 with 8th percentile and 0 stars. That percentile has slipped from 17 to 8 across the three reported years, and the star rating moved from 1 star to 0 stars. In 2025–2026, math proficiency was 0% (state 44.9%) and reading was 19% (state 48.6%); a year earlier, math was 8.82% and reading 34.78%. Science proficiency is suppressed by the state in both years, so it is simply unknown — not a zero and not evidence of poor performance. Note that the reading exam label changes between the two years, so that year-over-year reading comparison should be read cautiously.
The most striking gaps are in completion. For 2024–2025, the graduation rate is 53.6% versus 84.9% statewide, a difference of 31.3 percentage points, and the dropout rate is 21.9% versus 4.2% statewide — more than five times the state rate. About one-third of students (32.98%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is 16.8, with no comparison point in this data. These figures show real challenges relative to state averages, but the data do not explain why, and no cause should be assumed.
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