Summary:
Nicollet Public School District contains just one high school — Nicollet High School — which serves grades 7 through 12 and enrolls 151 students in Nicollet, Minnesota. The Nicollet Public School District is ranked 110th of 458 in Minnesota, placing it in the 76th percentile with a 4-star rating, while the school itself ranks 222nd of 473, the 53rd percentile with 3 stars. Context indicators are favorable: 14.57% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is 10.9.
The school's clearest strengths are completion outcomes and its 8th-grade results. In 2024–2025 the graduation rate was 91.1%, above the statewide 84.9%, and the dropout rate was 0.0% compared with 4.2% statewide. Eighth graders were the academic standout in 2025–2026: reading proficiency was 76.5% versus 50% statewide (26.5 points above), math was 58.8% versus 42.3% (16.5 points above), and science was 23.5% versus 16.7% (6.8 points above). Reading proficiency across all grades also stayed above the state in both years, at 53.03% in 2024–2025 and 51.9% in 2025–2026.
Other areas lag. Seventh graders trailed the state in math (31.6% versus 40.3%) and reading (36.8% versus 43.5%), and End-of-Course science was 25% versus 35% statewide. All-grades math dropped from 47.37% to 41.5% year over year, below both the district's 49.6% and the state's 44.9%, while all-grades science (24.2%) sat below the district's 31.7% and slightly under the state's 25.5%. Reading was above the state but below the district's 58.1%. The school's rank has also swung widely — from the 51st percentile in 2023–2024 to the 82nd in 2024–2025, then back to the 53rd in 2025–2026 — which is common in a school this small, where a single cohort can move results substantially.
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