Summary:
Red Wing Public School District serves roughly 2,113 students across five schools in southeastern Minnesota: two elementary schools, one middle school, and two high schools. Red Wing Senior High (grades 8–12, 762 students) is the largest, followed by Twin Bluff School (grades 5–7, 502), Burnside Elementary (grades 2–4, 493), Sunnyside Elementary (grades K–1, 294), and Tower View ALP (grades 9–12, 62).
Twin Bluff School is the district's strongest performer — the only school at the 50th percentile with 3 stars — and it beats district averages in math (35.5%), reading (40.1%), and science (19.0%), with its rank climbing from the 46th to the 50th percentile. Burnside Elementary posts the district's highest math proficiency (37.7%), but reading lags below district and state and its rank has slipped from the 30th to the 19th percentile. Red Wing Senior High graduates 90.8% of students, above both district and state, yet all-grade proficiency is low (math 26.9%, reading 29.5%, science 13.1%). Tower View ALP is the clearest low-end outlier: 0% math, 7.7% reading, 0% science, a 63.3% graduation rate, and the district's highest free/reduced lunch rate (56.45%); its small enrollment means those percentages can swing widely. Sunnyside Elementary has no MCA scores because it serves only K–1, but it has the lowest student-to-teacher ratio (12.0).
District-wide, students trail the state in every tested subject: math 33.5% vs 44.9%, reading 34.5% vs 48.6%, and science 14.8% vs 25.5%. Only one grade-level result in the data — Twin Bluff's 6th grade math at 42.4% — exceeds the state's 39.5%. Free/reduced lunch rates alone do not explain the differences, since Twin Bluff and Red Wing Senior High have similar rates near 30% but very different results. Parents comparing options should weigh school size, program type, and grade configuration alongside test scores.
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