Summary:
Isle Public School District in Minnesota serves about 394 students across three schools: one elementary covering PK–6 and two high schools covering grades 7–12, meaning the district has no separate middle school. The district as a whole ranks 271 of 458 in the state, at the 41st percentile with 2 stars. Both main campuses serve relatively high-poverty populations, with free/reduced lunch at 52.5% at Isle Elementary and 49.47% at Isle Secondary.
The two main schools are heading in opposite directions. Isle Secondary rebounded from the 19th percentile and 1 star in 2024–2025 to the 49th percentile and 2 stars in 2025–2026, and now outranks the elementary school. Its graduation rate is 91.8%, above the district (87.1%) and state (84.9%), though its dropout rate of 8.1% remains above the state's 4.2%. Science is its relative strength: All Grades science is 27.3% versus the state's 25.5%, End of Course science is 39.1% versus 35.0%, and 8th grade science is 18.8% versus 16.7%; 7th grade math is also above state at 48.0% versus 40.3%. Meanwhile, Isle Elementary slipped from the 55th to the 32nd percentile over three years, with math falling from 49.55% to 38.3% and reading from 45.95% to 38.3%.
Grade-level results at Isle Elementary include bright spots — 4th grade math at 54.8% and 6th grade reading at 53.6%, both near the state — but 3rd grade reading (28.6%), 5th grade math (26.5%), and 5th grade science (20.6%) trail state by wide margins. Class sizes differ notably: the student/teacher ratio is 10.9 at the elementary and 15.1 at the secondary. At Isle Area Learning Center, with only 6 students, all 2025–2026 school-level test scores are shown as "—", meaning the state suppressed them; no current graduation or dropout figure is provided, so its performance cannot be judged from this data.
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