Summary:
Paladin Career and Technical High School is the only school in this area and the only school in the Paladin Career and Technical High School district, serving grades 9–12 with 257 students in Coon Rapids, MN. The area has 0 elementary, 0 middle, 0 alternative, and 1 high school, so district-level figures match school-level figures exactly. Because there is no other local school to compare against, the most useful benchmark is the Minnesota state average.
The school has been ranked near the bottom of Minnesota high schools for three years: 414 of 458 currently, at the 10th percentile with 0 stars, and prior years fell in the bottom 9–13% with 0 or 1 stars. In 2024–2025, the graduation rate was 55.0% versus 84.9% statewide, and the dropout rate was 12.0% versus 4.2%. In 2025–2026, math proficiency was 4.9% versus 44.9% statewide, reading was 26.5% versus 48.6%, and science was 6.7% versus 25.5%. About 61.87% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch, and the student–teacher ratio was 22.8.
Math is extremely low—about one-ninth of the state rate and 40 percentage points lower. Reading is the comparatively stronger subject, but still 22.1 points below state, and it improved slightly from 24.39% to 26.5%, though the exam label changed. Science is the most dramatic swing: it was 30% in 2024–2025, above the state’s 26.15%, then fell 23.3 percentage points to 6.7% in 2025–2026. The 2025–2026 “All Grades” scores equal one tested grade per subject—11th-grade math, 10th-grade reading, and End-of-Course science. Overall, the school faces significant academic and completion challenges; the only positive signals are the slight reading uptick and the prior-year science result.
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