Summary:
Campbell-Tintah Public Schools is a very small rural Minnesota district serving about 115 students in two schools that share a single campus in Campbell. Campbell-Tintah Elementary serves prekindergarten through grade 6 with 66 students, while Campbell-Tintah Secondary serves grades 7 through 12 with 49 students. As a district it ranks 222nd of 458 in Minnesota — right at the state midpoint — with three stars.
The elementary school is the district's clear improver. Its state rank climbed 249 places to 438th of 869 schools, moving from the 21st to the 50th percentile, and all-grades math proficiency rose from 22.22% to 42.1% while reading rose from 22.22% to 34.2%. Third-grade math (58.3%) is essentially at the state level (57.9%), and sixth-grade math (50%) beats the state (39.5%) by more than 10 points. Fourth- and fifth-grade results are suppressed for privacy, and since the all-grades math figure (42.1%) is below both published grades, those hidden grades likely average lower than the overall number.
The secondary stands out for completion rather than test scores: a 90.0% graduation rate against 84.9% statewide, and a 0.0% dropout rate against 4.2% statewide. Its newest test results, however, fell sharply — math down 16.3 points, reading down 14.4, and science down 17.9 — and its ranking history stops before 2023-24. Science is the biggest concern: the district's 11.1% figure implies the suppressed elementary result sits at or under roughly 11%, down from 20% the prior year. With class cohorts of roughly 8-12 students, one student can shift a score several points, so single-year swings should be read with caution.
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