Summary:
High Schools located in the Bird Island-Olivia-Lake Lillian area include one combined secondary school, BOLD Senior High School, which serves grades 7–12 in Olivia, MN, with 203 students and is part of the same district. The record includes district and school rank history, 2024–2025 graduation and dropout data, 2024–2025 and 2025–2026 MCA proficiency results, free/reduced-lunch percentage, and student-teacher ratio. No test-score values are suppressed in this record, so listed percentages can be read as exact unless noted.
The school’s most favorable indicators are completion-related. Its graduation rate is 88.2%, above the state’s 84.9%, and its dropout rate is 3.9%, below the state’s 4.2%. Tenth-grade reading is 42.6%, essentially tied with the state’s 42.5%. In 2024–2025, all-grade science was 30.23%, above the district’s 22.32% and the state’s 26.15%. The school also has a student-teacher ratio of 8.8 and a free/reduced-lunch rate of 33.5%. Its rank improved from the 30th percentile in 2024–2025 to the 44th percentile in 2025–2026, though it remains a 2-star school.
Current proficiency is the main concern. In 2025–2026, all-grade math is 18.4%, well below the district’s 33.3% and state’s 44.9%; all-grade reading is 34.3% versus 48.6% statewide; and all-grade science is 21.5% versus 25.5% statewide. Grade-level gaps are large: 11th-grade math is 11.1%, 8th-grade math is 16.3%, 7th-grade reading is 23.5%, and 8th-grade science is 7.1%. All three tested subjects declined in the listed all-grade figures from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with science falling from 30.23% to 21.5%. Because the school is small, these changes may reflect cohort shifts, but math and middle-grade reading/science remain the central areas to watch.
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