Edgerton Public School District

The Edgerton Public School District is a small Minnesota district with just two schools — Edgerton Elementary serving PK–5 with 209 students, and Edgerton Secondary serving grades 6–12 with 228 students — for a combined enrollment of 437 and no separate middle or alternative school. The district ranks 254th of 458 in Minnesota, at the 45th percentile with 2 stars.

Edgerton Secondary is the stronger of the two schools, ranking 203rd of 473 (57th percentile, 3 stars), above the district average and far above Edgerton Elementary, which ranks 649th of 869 (25th percentile, 1 star). The secondary school reports a 0.0% dropout rate against the state's 4.2%, and a graduation rate of 84.0%, just shy of the state's 84.9%. Several of its grade-level results beat state averages: 11th-grade math 50% vs 35.3%, 7th-grade math 46.4% vs 40.3%, and 6th-grade reading 57.1% vs 53.4%. The elementary school's most striking weakness is science, at 3.7% proficient both all-grade and in 5th grade, versus 25.5% and 25.9% statewide; 5th-grade math is also 3.7% against a 41.9% state average.

Across the district, all three all-grade subjects trail the state: math 38.4% vs 44.9%, reading 39.6% vs 48.6%, and science 16.7% vs 25.5%. Performance is uneven within the secondary school too, where 8th-grade reading is 30.2% against 50% statewide and 8th-grade science is 11.6% vs 16.7%, even as other grades exceed state averages. The two schools are on different paths: the secondary school has swung from 1 star to 4 stars to 3 stars, while the elementary school has slipped from 2 stars to 2 stars to 1 star. With such small enrollment, these swings can be driven by a single cohort, so year-to-year comparisons should be read with caution.