Summary:
Spring Grove School District is a small Minnesota district with just two schools serving 349 students in total: Spring Grove Elementary for grades PK–6, with 186 students, and Spring Grove Secondary for grades 7–12, with 163 students. As a whole, the district is rated highly — it ranks 43 of 458 Minnesota districts, in the 91st percentile, with 5 stars.
The two schools are both strong, but in different ways. Spring Grove Elementary is the steadier academic performer. It ranks 134 of 869 schools (85th percentile, 4 stars), up from the 74th percentile three years ago, and it beats the state in all three tested subjects: math at 69.8% versus 44.9%, reading at 62.1% versus 48.6%, and science at 31% versus 25.5%. Its 5th and 6th grade math scores, at 72.4% and 70.6%, are especially far above state averages. Spring Grove Secondary ranks 89 of 473 (81st percentile, 4 stars) and has swung more from year to year, including a big rebound from the 29th percentile to the 81st. Its completion outcomes are excellent: a graduation rate of 95.1% versus the state's 84.9%, and a dropout rate of 2.4% versus 4.2%. Secondary math also jumped sharply, from 23.75% to 54.2%.
Reading is solid at both schools, and the clearest academic concern is science. District-wide science sits at 24%, slightly below the state's 25.5% — a change from the prior year, when it was well above. Secondary science is the weakest area at 19.6%, driven largely by 8th grade science at 3.7% versus the state's 16.7%, while high school End of Course science is above the state at 42.1%. That pattern points to a middle-school science issue rather than a district-wide one. With only 349 students, families should also expect year-to-year swings to look larger than they would in a bigger district.
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