Summary:
The Rocori Public School District in central Minnesota has just one middle school: Rocori Middle in Cold Spring, serving grades 6–8 with 563 students. Because it is the only middle school in the district, there are no local peers to compare it with, so the most useful benchmarks are the district, the state, and the school's own past results. The district overall ranks 165th of 458 in Minnesota, at the 64th percentile with 3 stars. About 25.22% of students at Rocori Middle receive free or reduced lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is 18:1.
Academically, the school's clearest strength is math. Rocori Middle outperformed the state in every middle grade: 6th grade by 8.8 points, 7th grade by 9.2 points, and 8th grade by 9.8 points, with all-grade math proficiency of 49.9%, which is 5.0 points above the state and 1.1 points above the district. Reading is more uneven. Overall reading sits at 48.4%, essentially the state average of 48.6%, but 6th grade shines at 62.4% while 7th grade (41.0%) and 8th grade (43.5%) fall below their state averages. Science is the biggest concern: 8th-grade proficiency of 13.4% trails the state's 16.7% by 3.3 points.
Rankings show improvement. The school moved from 169th of 519 middle schools in 2024–2025 (67th percentile, 3 stars) to 143rd of 546 in 2025–2026 (74th percentile, 4 stars), close to its 2023–2024 result of 134th of 545. All three subjects improved year over year, with math up 2.11 points, reading up 3.63 points, and science up 5.42 points. For families, the takeaway is a math-strong, improving school ranked in the top quarter of the state, with science and upper-grade reading as the areas to watch.
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