Summary:
Maple Lake Secondary is the only high school in Maple Lake Public School District, serving about 340 students in grades 7–12, with roughly one in five students eligible for free or reduced lunch (19.41%) and a generally favorable student-teacher ratio of 11.6. The district as a whole ranks 122nd of 458 (73rd percentile, 4 stars), while the school itself has placed in the top quarter of Minnesota high schools for two consecutive years.
Outcomes at the school are strong. Its rank climbed from 209th of 480 (56th percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024 to 95th of 450 (79th percentile, 4 stars) in 2024–2025, then held steady at 97th of 473 (79th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026. The graduation rate of 96.6% is 11.7 percentage points above the state's 84.9%, and the 1.6% dropout rate is well below the state's 4.2%. Because this is the district's only high school, school and district figures for these metrics are identical.
Test results are mixed and vary sharply by grade. Above-state results include 10th-grade reading (50.0 vs. 42.5), 11th-grade math (39.0 vs. 35.3), science end-of-course (42.3 vs. 35.0), 8th-grade reading (51.1 vs. 50.0) and 8th-grade math (43.5 vs. 42.3). The clearest weak spots are 7th-grade reading (31.1 vs. 43.5), 7th-grade math (32.8 vs. 40.3) and 8th-grade science (11.1 vs. 16.7). All-grade math (37.8) and reading (43.5) trail the state (44.9 and 48.6) and both declined from 2024–2025, while all-grade science rose to 27.8, now above the state's 25.5. The reading exam label also changes between years, which can affect year-over-year comparisons.
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