Summary:
Proctor Public School District in Minnesota contains just one public high school, Proctor Senior High, serving grades 9–12 with 540 students in Proctor, a smaller community in the Duluth area. Because it is the district's only high school, there are no peer high schools to compare it against inside the district; the most useful benchmarks are the district's own figures and statewide results.
The clearest strength is completion. The school's 91.8% graduation rate is 6.9 percentage points above Minnesota's 84.9%, and its 2.4% dropout rate is 1.8 points below the state's 4.2%. On the most comparable high-school measures in 2025-2026, 11th-grade math proficiency is 39.5%, matching the district and beating the state's 35.3%. Science looks strong on an all-grades basis at 33.7% versus the state's 25.5%, though on the more comparable Science End of Course measure the school sits at 33.7% against the state's 35.0% — so that all-grades edge partly reflects the school's high-school-only grade mix rather than pure outperformance.
There are real warning signs in the latest year. The school slipped from 4 stars and the 79th percentile to 3 stars and the 59th percentile, ranking 192nd of 473 high schools. Reading fell from 58.47% to 38.3%, a 20.17-point drop that is far steeper than district or state declines — though the exam label changed from MCA-III to MCA-IV, so that comparison should be read with caution. In 2025-2026, 10th-grade reading (38.3%) is below the state's 42.5%, and all-grades math (39.5%) trails both the district (45.7%) and the state (44.9%). For context, 33.15% of students receive free or reduced lunch and the student-teacher ratio is 15.7.
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