Summary:
Deer River Public School District in Minnesota contains two high schools — Deer River Secondary, a comprehensive school serving grades 6–12 with 425 students, and Deer River High School ALP, a very small alternative program serving grades 10–12 with 13 students. Combined enrollment is 438 students, meaning Deer River Secondary enrolls about 97% of the district's high school students. The district itself is ranked 266 out of 458 in Minnesota, at the 42nd percentile with 2 stars.
Deer River Secondary has one clear strength: its 2024–2025 graduation rate of 87.0% is above the district's 83.9% and the state's 84.9%. Its dropout rate of 7.4% is slightly above the district's 7.1% and well above the state's 4.2%. Test proficiency is below district and state levels in every subject: math 21.1% (district 39.5%, state 44.9%), reading 37.3% (district 50.3%, state 48.6%), and science 12.4% (district 18.2%, state 25.5%). Middle grades look stronger than high school grades — 7th-grade reading is 43.6%, essentially matching the state's 43.5%, while 10th-grade reading is 20.5% and 11th-grade math is 13.0%. Science scores are the lowest overall, with 8th grade at 7.4%. The school's state rank fell in 2025–2026 to 393 out of 473, at the 17th percentile with 1 star, down from the 35th–36th percentiles with 2 stars in the two prior years.
Deer River High School ALP is tiny, and its 2025–2026 test scores are shown as “—” because the state suppressed them to protect student privacy, so its current academic performance is unknown — not zero. Its free/reduced lunch rate is 76.92%, compared with 59.06% at Deer River Secondary. No current graduation, dropout, or student-teacher ratio is provided; the only school-level figures shown date to 2020–2021 and should not be treated as current.
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