Summary:
There is exactly one middle school in the Voyageurs Expeditionary area of Minnesota: Voyageurs Expeditionary Middle School in Bemidji, serving grades 6–8 with 44 students. The district itself is ranked 441 out of 458 Minnesota districts, with a percentile of 4 and 0 stars. Because this is the only school in the listing, everything below describes that single school rather than a comparison among schools.
Academically, the school trails Minnesota averages in every subject and nearly every grade. In 2025-2026, all-grade math was 9.5% proficient versus 44.9% statewide (a gap of 35.4 points), reading was 18.6% versus 48.6% (30.0 points below), and science was 0% versus 25.5%. Science is the weakest area: the school reported 0% in science for both All Grades and 8th Grade, down from 8.33% in 2024-2025. Eighth grade is the most challenged cohort overall, with 0% in math, 0% in science, and 14.3% in reading. There are bright spots, though. Seventh grade reading reached 28.6%, the highest grade-level score in the record, and 6th grade math reached 20%. All-grade math and reading also edged above the district's all-grade averages, even while remaining far below the state.
Rank history shows slow but real improvement: the school's percentile moved from 2 in 2023-2024 to 7 in 2024-2025 to 9 in 2025-2026, though it has earned 0 stars in each of those three years and in 2025-2026 ranked 495 out of 546 — still the bottom decile. The free/reduced lunch rate was 84.09% in 2024-2025, and the student-teacher ratio is not reported, leaving staffing context unknown. With only 44 students, grade-level percentages can swing widely from year to year, so small cohorts should be read with caution.
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