Litchfield Public School District

Litchfield Public School District in Minnesota serves about 1,524 students across four schools — three traditional schools spanning grades K–12 plus a small alternative high school — and the district as a whole is rated 4 stars, ranking 130th of 458 districts at the 72nd percentile. That overall rating hides wide differences between buildings, since the district rank is repeated on every school record and is not a school-level measure.

Litchfield Middle School is the steadiest performer, holding 4 stars in all three years of rank history (79th, 73rd, then 76th percentile), with all-grade reading at 50.6 — above both district and state — and standout results in 7th-grade math (66.7 vs. 40.3 statewide), 6th-grade reading (62.1 vs. 53.4), and 5th-grade science (34.6 vs. 25.9). Its weak spots are 5th-grade math (29 vs. 41.9) and 8th-grade science (15.8 vs. 16.7). Litchfield Senior High posts the strongest outcomes — a 95.9 graduation rate and 3.0 dropout rate, both better than district and state, plus all-grade science of 37.2 and grade-level math and reading above state — but it is volatile, swinging from 5 stars and the 93rd percentile to 4 stars and the 77th, with reading falling 15.44 points year over year.

Lake Ripley Elementary has a split profile: all-grade math is 52.3, above district and state, yet every reported grade-level math and reading score sits below state, and its rank dropped to 2 stars and the 46th percentile. Litchfield Area Learning Program enrolls just 14 students with 71.43% free/reduced-price lunch; its math scores are suppressed, so proficiency cannot be assessed, and its graduation/dropout figures date to 2019–2020. Poverty indicators rise as grades get earlier, from 29.24% at Senior High to 50.53% at the elementary school, while student/teacher ratios run the opposite way.