Summary:
Houston Public School District in Minnesota serves three high schools: Minnesota Virtual Academy High (grades 9–12, 706 students), Houston Secondary (grades 7–12, 234 students), and Summit Learning Program (grades 9–12, 22 students). The Houston Public School District is rated 2 stars and ranks 277 of 458 in the state, at the 40th percentile. Enrollment varies enormously: Minnesota Virtual Academy High accounts for roughly 73% of the three-school total, while Summit Learning Program is very small, so its rates and suppressed test scores should be read with caution.
Outcomes differ sharply depending on the measure. Houston Secondary posts the strongest completion figures — a 98.0% graduation rate and 0.0% dropout rate, far above the district's 68.5% and 15.7% and the state's 84.9% and 4.2% — yet its 2025–2026 proficiency is low, at 21.6% in Math, 31.9% in Reading, and 21.7% in Science. Minnesota Virtual Academy High, the largest school, earns the best current rank (200 of 473, 58th percentile, 3 stars), and its Math (42.1%) and Science (27.6%) beat district averages, with Science above the state's 25.5%; however, its graduation rate of 64.1% and dropout rate of 21.3% lag the district. Summit Learning Program has the lowest student-teacher ratio (6.9) and the highest free/reduced lunch rate (72.73%), but its 2025–2026 test scores are suppressed by the state, so its current academic performance is unknown.
Overall, the district trails the state on most measures: graduation is 16.4 percentage points lower, dropout is 11.5 points higher, and 2025–2026 Math, Reading, and Science all fall below state averages, though district Reading briefly edged above the state in 2024–2025. Houston Secondary's rank history swings widely (65th percentile in 2023–2024, 18th in 2024–2025, then 37th), and because the schools serve different grade spans, all-grade comparisons are not perfectly apples-to-apples.
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