Summary:
Mabel-Canton Secondary is the only high school in the Mabel-Canton Public School District, serving 126 students in grades 7–12 in the small rural community of Mabel, Minnesota.
The school's strongest outcomes are in graduation and reading. Its graduation rate is 100% and its dropout rate is 0%, compared with statewide rates of 84.9% and 4.2%. Reading proficiency across all grades is 57.1%, above the state's 48.6%, and the grade-level results are especially strong in 7th grade (62.5% vs. 43.5% statewide) and 10th grade (58.8% vs. 42.5%). Science also edges out the state, 29.5% to 25.5%, with 8th-grade science at 22.7% versus 16.7% statewide. Math, however, is uneven: 7th-grade math (52.2%) and 8th-grade math (45.5%) beat the state's 40.3% and 42.3%, but 11th-grade math is just 18.2%, far below the state's 35.3%, and all-grades math (42.9%) trails both the state (44.9%) and the district (46.9%), suggesting a drop-off as students reach high school.
Parents should also weigh the school's shifting rankings and small size. Mabel-Canton Public School District ranks 65th of 458 in Minnesota (86th percentile, 4 stars), while the school sits at 165th of 473 (65th percentile, 3 stars) for 2025–2026 — down from 76th of 480 and 4 stars in 2023–2024. With only 126 students, a handful of students can swing a grade-level rate sharply, so results like 11th-grade math deserve caution. A low student-teacher ratio of 10.1 and a 28.57% free/reduced lunch rate round out the picture of a small school with strong completion outcomes, solid reading, and room to grow in high school math.
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