Summary:
Orono Public School District serves about 2,955 students across four schools — two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school — covering grades PK through 12. The district is rated 13th of 458 Minnesota districts, in the 97th percentile with 5 stars. Enrollment is spread fairly evenly: Orono Senior High (961 students, grades 9–12), Orono Middle (720, grades 6–8), Orono Intermediate Elementary (663, grades 3–5), and Schumann Elementary (611, grades PK–2).
Among schools with test data, Orono Middle is the strongest and most consistent, ranking 11th of 546 Minnesota middle schools at the 98th percentile with 5 stars, and holding top-2% rankings in each of the last three years. Its all-grade reading (73.7%) and math (72.2%) proficiency are well above the state, with 82.1% in 6th-grade reading and 79.9% in 8th-grade math. Orono Intermediate Elementary ranks 33rd of 869 elementary schools (96th percentile, 5 stars) and posts the district's highest all-grade math (78.9%) and science (41.3%) scores, including 88.1% in 3rd-grade math and 85% in 4th-grade math.
Orono Senior High has outstanding completion outcomes — a 98.2% graduation rate and 0.4% dropout rate, versus 84.9% and 4.2% statewide — but its latest rank slipped to 84th of 473 (82nd percentile, 4 stars) from mid-90s percentiles with 5 stars in prior years, and it trails the district average in all three subjects. Science is the relative weak spot across tested schools, and districtwide science fell 5.4 percentage points year over year. Schumann Elementary has the district's lowest free/reduced lunch rate (6.87%) and lowest student/teacher ratio (14.9), though it has no test or rank data because it serves PK–2.
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