Summary:
New London-Spicer School District in central Minnesota serves about 1,492 students across four schools — one elementary (PK–4), one middle (5–8), and two high schools (9–12), one of which is a very small alternative high school. As a district it ranks 45th of 458 Minnesota districts, in the 90th percentile with 5 stars, and its 2025-26 averages beat the state in math (52.2 vs 44.9), reading (55.6 vs 48.6), and science (30.9 vs 25.5). Note that a "—" means the state suppressed a figure to protect student privacy; it is unknown, not a zero or a weakness.
The clearest standout is New London-Spicer Senior, which ranks 34th of 473 Minnesota high schools (93rd percentile, 5 stars), up from 110th of 450 (76th percentile) the year before. Its graduation rate is 94.9% against the state's 84.9%, dropout is 3.3% against 4.2%, science is 49.0% (nearly double the state's 25.5%), and math is 57.6%. Prairie Woods Elementary is a math standout at 66.8% all-grade, 21.9 points above the state, with 4th grade at 67.1%. New London-Spicer Middle is the reading leader at 57.5%, above both district and state, with 5th-grade reading at 63.9% — the highest reading figure in the district — though its math (43.4%) and science (22.4%) trail district and state averages.
Reading is a broad district strength: all three ranked schools exceed the state. Middle school math is the main relative weak spot, having slipped from 49.89% a year earlier, though 5th, 7th, and 8th grade math are above state. New London Alternative School, with 12 students, has all test scores suppressed and no rank, graduation, or dropout data, so it cannot be fairly compared; its absence of scores means the data are unknown, not poor.
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