Summary:
Rushford-Peterson Senior High is the only high school in Rushford-Peterson Public Schools, serving roughly 237 students in grades 9–12, with a student-teacher ratio of 17:1 and about 23.21% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch. Because it is the district's lone high school, there are no in-district peer schools to compare it against; the meaningful comparisons are with the district as a whole, with Minnesota benchmarks, and with the school's own prior years.
Its strongest results are in completion. The graduation rate is 94.3%, matching the district and well above the state's 84.9%, and the dropout rate is 0.0% compared with 4.2% statewide. Science is the academic bright spot: 27.3% proficient in 2025–2026, above the district's 21.1% and the state's 25.5%, and it was above both benchmarks the previous year as well. Even so, that figure still means roughly three in four students were not proficient in science.
Math and reading are the clear weak spots. In 2025–2026, math proficiency was 32.8% versus 43.2% in the district and 44.9% in the state, while reading was 37.0% versus 45.8% and 48.6%. All three subjects declined from the prior year, with math falling 7.55 points — a far steeper drop than the state's 0.31-point slip. The school's state rank also slid from the 60th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–2024 to the 47th percentile and 2 stars in 2025–2026, below the district's 55th percentile. Overall, the school succeeds at getting students to graduation but is currently underperforming in key academic proficiency measures.
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