Summary:
High schools in the Albert Lea Public School District in southern Minnesota consist of three schools serving grades 6–12 or 8–12: Albert Lea Senior High, Albert Lea Area Learning Center, and Albert Lea Secondary Online Academy.
Albert Lea Senior High is by far the largest school with 1,196 students, or nearly 89% of the district's high school enrollment, and it is the strongest and most complete performer. Its state rank improved from 300 of 480 (38th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–2024 to 229 of 473 (52nd percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026. Its 89.0% graduation rate is above both the district's 76.2% and the state's 84.9%, and its dropout rate of 5.9% is better than the district's 10.2% but worse than the state's 4.2%. Proficiency, however, remains below state in all subjects: 21.7% in math, 28.6% in reading, and 19.3% in science, with 8th grade a particular weak point (math 15.5%, reading 21.8%, science 6.1%, all far below state).
The other two schools are much smaller and show sharply different profiles. Albert Lea Area Learning Center, with 113 students, ranks 456 of 473 (4th percentile, 0 stars) and posts the district's lowest outcomes: a 38.1% graduation rate, a 22.2% dropout rate, 3.7% math proficiency, and 16.7% reading proficiency, alongside a 70.8% free/reduced lunch rate and the highest student-teacher ratio at 24.5. Albert Lea Secondary Online Academy, with 37 students, has the highest poverty indicator at 75.68% free/reduced lunch and little comparable data—no rank, graduation, dropout, or student-teacher ratio. Its reading proficiency of 28.6% matches Senior High's, but its math proficiency is only 7.7%, and many of its grade-level results are suppressed, so those figures should be read cautiously.
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