Summary:
Pine Island Middle is the only middle school in the Pine Island Public School District, serving 464 students in grades 5–8, and it stands out as a consistently 4-star school in a district ranked 81 out of 458 in Minnesota, at the 82nd percentile. Its student/teacher ratio was 15.1 in 2024–2025, with 18.1% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch.
Reading is this school's clearest strength. All-grade reading proficiency was 57.3% in 2025–2026, above both the district's 55.8% and the state's 48.6%; in 2024–2025 it was 57.8% versus 56.47% in the district and 49.59% in the state. Grade 6 reading reached 69.6%, 16.2 percentage points above the state's 53.4%, and grade 7 reading was 57.1%, 13.6 points above the state. Grade 8 reading, at 47.4%, was slightly below the state's 50%.
Math is close to the state overall but uneven by grade. All-grade math was 44.2%, just 0.7 points below the state's 44.9%, though below the district's 52.6%. Grade 5 math, at 29.4%, trailed the state's 41.9% and pulls down the overall figure, while grades 6 (53.9%), 7 (48%) and 8 (46.2%) all exceeded the state. Science is the main area of concern: all-grade science was 14.6%, compared with 19.1% in the district and 25.5% in the state, down from 28.97% the prior year — a decline the district experienced as well. The school ranked 110 out of 546 Minnesota middle schools in 2025–2026, holding the 80th percentile and 4 stars for a second consecutive year.
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