Mahnomen Public School District

Mahnomen Public School District is a small Minnesota district serving about 674 students across three schools: Mahnomen Elementary (grades PK–6, 319 students), Mahnomen Secondary (grades 7–12, 312 students), and Mahnomen Area Learning Center (grades 6–12, 43 students). The district ranks 418th of 458 Minnesota districts, at the 9th percentile with 0 stars, placing it in the bottom decile statewide.

The two larger schools are nearly equal in size and together enroll about 93.6% of the district's students. Mahnomen Secondary is the relatively stronger campus: it holds the district's only 1-star rating, ranks 383rd of 473 (19th percentile), and posts the better graduation rate at 81.2%, above the district's 69.5% and close to the state's 84.9%. Its dropout rate is 12.5% versus the district's 13.0%. However, Mahnomen Elementary leads in math and reading — 19.9% and 23.3% versus Secondary's 10.1% and 18.5% — while reporting 0% science across all grades. Elementary is the largest school and has the highest free/reduced-lunch rate at 82.76%.

At the Mahnomen Area Learning Center, test scores are suppressed by the state to protect student privacy, so its proficiency is unknown — not zero. Its non-test figures are notable: graduation 42.8%, dropout 14.2%, and a reported student/teacher ratio of 86.0. District-wide, poverty is high, with a weighted free/reduced-lunch rate of roughly 76.6%. Proficiency trails the state by wide margins: district math 15.4% versus 44.9%, reading 20.8% versus 48.6%, and science 6.1% versus 25.5%. Bright spots remain below state averages, including Elementary's 3rd-grade math at 37% and 6th-grade reading at 35.6%. Year-over-year results are mixed: Elementary math improved while Secondary declined in all three subjects.