Summary:
Schools in this area consist of a single school: East Range Academy Of Technical-Science, a high school serving grades 9–12 with 127 students in Mountain Iron, MN — there are 0 elementary, 0 middle, and 1 high school in the area, and because it is a one-school district, the East Range Academy Of Technical-Science district figures mirror the school figures exactly.
The school ranks 424 out of 458 districts, at the 7th percentile, with 0 stars, and its percentile has slipped from 16 to 12 to 10 across 2023–2024, 2024–2025, and 2025–2026, with stars moving from 1 to 1 to 0. Only 47.1% of students graduated in 2024–2025, versus 84.9% statewide, and the dropout rate was 13.2% against 4.2% statewide — about 3.1 times the state rate. Nearly 9 in 10 students (89.76%) were eligible for free/reduced lunch, and the student-teacher ratio was 12.5, implying roughly 10 teachers for 127 students. In 2025–2026, math proficiency was 4.2% versus 44.9% statewide, reading was 11.8% versus 48.6%, and science was 16.7% versus 25.5%; all-grade scores matched the tested grade or end-of-course scores.
Science is the clearest relative bright spot, rising from 8.7% in 2024–2025 to 16.7% in 2025–2026 — an 8.0 percentage-point gain and the smallest gap to the state. Math also ticked up slightly from 3.85% in 2024–2025 to 4.2% in 2025–2026, though it remains roughly one-tenth of the state rate. Reading fell from 29.63% to 11.8%, a 17.83 percentage-point decline, but note the exam label changed from MCA-III to MCA-IV, so that comparison may not be perfectly like-for-like. With no internal comparison group available, families should weigh the graduation and dropout figures as the most urgent signals.
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