Hawley Public School District

The Hawley Public School District in Minnesota has three schools in this data set — two elementary schools and one high school, with no middle or alternative school listed — serving a total of 1,058 students. The district as a whole is highly ranked: 19th of 458 districts, in the 96th percentile, with 5 stars. District all-grade proficiency is above the state in every subject: Math 66.9 vs 44.9, Reading 64.4 vs 48.6, and Science 35.0 vs 25.5. Even so, the individual schools have very different profiles.

Hawley Elementary is the largest school, with 579 students in PK–6, and the district's academic standout. In 2025–2026 its all-grade proficiency was Math 76.1, Reading 68.4, and Science 43.4 — each above both district and state averages. It ranks 45th of 869 schools, in the 95th percentile with 5 stars, up from 4 stars the prior year. Grade-level highlights include 4th grade math at 86.7, 6th grade reading at 76.1, and 5th grade science at 43.4. Compared with Hawley Secondary, it leads by 21.7 points in math, 9.9 in reading, and 12.9 in science.

Hawley Secondary, with 453 students in grades 7–12, has strong completion outcomes: a 93.0% graduation rate (state 84.9%) and a 0.0% dropout rate (state 4.2%). Its test scores, however, declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 — Math 59.65 to 54.4, Reading 65.29 to 58.5, Science 36.91 to 30.5 — matching a rank drop from the 98th percentile to the 84th percentile with 4 stars. Spring Prairie Elementary is a small, high-poverty outlier: only 26 students, a free/reduced lunch rate of 88.46% versus about 17% at the two Hawley schools, and the lowest student/teacher ratio at 8.6. Its Math is 30.8, below state; Reading is 53.8, above state but below district; and its Science value is suppressed by the state, meaning unknown rather than zero. Many grade-level cells are also suppressed, so conclusions about Spring Prairie should be cautious.