Voyageurs Expeditionary

Voyageurs Expeditionary is a small Minnesota district made up of just two schools serving grades 6 through 12: Voyageurs Expeditionary School, a high school with 83 students in grades 9–12, and Voyageurs Expeditionary Middle School, a middle school with 44 students in grades 6–8 — 127 students in total. The district ranks 441 of 458 in Minnesota, placing it in the 4th percentile, and both schools received 0 stars in 2025–2026. No elementary or alternative schools appear in this data.

Between the two, the middle school is the stronger performer in 2025–2026 math and reading. Its all-grade math proficiency was 9.5% versus 0% at the high school, and reading was 18.6% versus 6.3%. The middle school's 7th-grade reading proficiency of 28.6% is the highest figure in the data set, though still below the state's 43.5%. Its ranking has also improved, from the 2nd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 7th and then the 9th. The high school moved the other way, falling from the 16th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 9th and then the 3rd. In science the pattern flips: the high school's 5.6% exceeded the middle school's 0%. One caution — the high school's 2024–2025 science proficiency is suppressed by the state and cannot be evaluated.

Both schools trail the state by wide margins, especially in math (high school 0% vs. the state's 44.9%) and reading (6.3% vs. 48.6%). Free/reduced lunch rates are high: 81.93% at the high school and 84.09% at the middle school. The high school's student-teacher ratio of 6.5 is low, but outcomes remain weak — graduation is 66.6% vs. the state's 84.9%, and the dropout rate is 9.5% vs. 4.2%. The middle school's ratio is not reported. With enrollments this small, year-to-year percentages can shift on just a few students, so single-year swings deserve caution even though overall performance is consistently low.