Summary:
Bagley Secondary is the only high school in the Bagley Public School District, serving grades 7–12 to 388 students in a small, single-school district where 55.41% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and the student-teacher ratio is 14.6. Because it is the district's only high school, there are no local peer schools to compare it against; the most useful comparisons are to the district as a whole and to Minnesota averages. The district is ranked 393rd of 458 in the state (14th percentile) with 1 star, and the school itself ranks 384th of 473 (19th percentile), also 1 star, for 2025–2026.
Test proficiency is well below state averages in nearly every subject and grade. In 2025–2026, all-grade math was 8.5% versus the state's 44.9%, reading was 23.9% versus 48.6%, and science was 12.9% versus 25.5%. The weakest results are in 8th grade, where math was 3.8% against a state figure of 42.3%, and reading was 10.6% against 50.0%. The relative bright spots are 7th-grade reading, at 36.4%, only 7.1 points below the state's 43.5%, and science, which has the smallest all-grade gap to the state. Year over year, math fell from 16.05% to 8.5% and science fell from 19.58% to 12.9%, while reading edged up from 22.56% to 23.9%.
Graduation and dropout rates tell different stories. The graduation rate of 84.4% is essentially at the district's 84.8% and the state's 84.9%, but the dropout rate of 7.7% is well above the state's 4.2%. Rank history has been volatile: 39th percentile with 2 stars in 2023–2024, 12th percentile with 1 star in 2024–2025, and 19th percentile with 1 star in 2025–2026, so the school has not returned to its earlier position.
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