Summary:
Middle schools in the Forest Lake Public School District are represented by a single school, Forest Lake Area Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 916 students in Forest Lake, Minnesota. Because it is the district’s only middle school, it carries the full middle-grades results for the district and has no in-district peer to compare against, so the most useful comparisons are to district and state benchmarks.
The school stands out against its district’s broader profile. It holds a 4-star rating in each of the last three years, while the Forest Lake Public School District is rated 3 stars and ranked 172 of 458 districts, at the 62nd percentile. The school’s 2025–2026 rank is 119 of 546, at the 78th percentile. In 2025–2026, Math proficiency was 49.6% (state 44.9%) and Reading was 51.6% (state 48.6%). Grade-level results in Math and Reading were at or above the district and above the state at every tested grade. Grade 7 Math (55.4% vs. 40.3% state) and Grade 8 Math (52.2% vs. 42.3% state) showed the largest advantages over the state.
Science is the clear area to watch: Grade 8 Science proficiency was 15.2%, essentially level with the district’s 15.1% but below the state’s 16.7%. The school’s all-grade science figure reflects only grade 8 testing, so it is not directly comparable to district and state all-grade science numbers. Year over year, Reading rose 5.71 points and Science rose 3.58 points, while Math fell 3.64 points but remained above the state average. The school’s best recent year was 2023–2024, when it ranked 92 of 545 at the 83rd percentile; it slipped in 2024–2025 and partially recovered in 2025–2026. Other context: a free/reduced lunch rate of 26.09%, meaning about one in four students was eligible, and a student-teacher ratio of 19.2.
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