Summary:
Butterfield Secondary is the only high school listed in Butterfield-Odin Public Schools, a small rural district in Butterfield, Minnesota, serving grades 7–12 with 103 students. Because there is just one high school in this area, there are no side-by-side school comparisons to make — the useful comparison is between this school, its district, and Minnesota averages overall.
Academically, the school trails the state in every reported subject. In 2025–26, all-grades math was 26.7% proficient (state: 44.9%), reading 22.2% (state: 48.6%), and science 6.5% (state: 25.5%). Reading shows the largest all-grades gap, 26.4 points behind the state, with 8th grade reading at 17.6% and 10th grade reading at 15.4%. Science is the most severe weakness: 8th grade science was 0% proficient against a state average of 16.7%, and End of Course science was 14.3% versus 35% statewide. Math is the one bright spot — all-grades math rose 6.29 percentage points year over year, from 20.41% to 26.7%, and 8th grade math (35.3%) is the school's strongest grade-level result, only 7.0 points below state. Seventh grade reading, at 33.3%, is also comparatively stronger, 10.2 points below state.
Graduation and dropout figures reinforce the academic picture: the graduation rate is 70.3% versus 84.9% statewide, and the dropout rate is 7.4% versus 4.2%. The school holds a 1-star rating, ranks 388 of 473 Minnesota schools (18th percentile), and has stayed in the bottom fifth for three straight years. Context matters: 64.08% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, indicating substantial socioeconomic need, while the 11:1 student-teacher ratio is a favorable resource indicator. With only 103 students across six grades, grade-level percentages rest on small numbers of students, so a 0% or a large year-to-year swing may reflect a handful of students rather than a stable trend.
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