Summary:
The Luverne Public School District in southwestern Minnesota serves about 1,137 students across three schools — Luverne Elementary (515 students), Luverne Senior High (351 students), and Luverne Middle (271 students). The district ranks 61st of 458 statewide (87th percentile, 4 stars) and outperforms the state average in all three tested subjects: math 60.5% vs. 44.9%, reading 57.3% vs. 48.6%, and science 28.3% vs. 25.5%.
Each school has its own academic identity. Luverne Elementary is the math and science leader with 70.0% in math and 35.7% in science, plus standout grade-level results such as 76.9% in 4th-grade math and 67.9% in 5th-grade reading. Luverne Middle holds the district's highest current rank — 60th of 546, 89th percentile, 4 stars — and the best reading score at 61.1%, though its science result is only 19.3%. Luverne Senior High has the lowest current rank (190th of 473, 60th percentile, 3 stars) and the weakest reading score at 35.1%, which is 22.2 points below the district. Its traditional strength is graduation: 90.2% of students graduate, above the district's 86.2% and the state's 84.9%.
The high school is the district's main watch point. Its rank has slipped from the 79th to the 74th to the 60th percentile, and math fell from 72.04% to 51.2% while reading dropped from 43.68% to 35.1%. Science is uneven across the district: strong at the elementary, improving at the middle (14.29% to 19.3%), and above the state at the high school's all-grade level even though its End-of-Course science result is lower than the state's. One caution for parents: reading was labeled MCA-IV in 2025-26 and MCA-III in 2024-25, so year-over-year reading changes are subject-level trends rather than exact same-exam comparisons.
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