Summary:
The St. Cloud Public School District in Minnesota includes six high schools with a combined enrollment of 3,191 students. Two are large comprehensive high schools serving grades 9–12 — Technical Senior High (1,561 students) and Apollo Senior High (1,264) — which together account for about 88.5% of the listed high-school population. The other four are smaller alternative, virtual, or specialized programs: St. Cloud Area Learning Center (237 students, grades 6–12), Alternative Learning Center - Sauk Rapids (59, grades 7–12), Central Minnesota Virtual Academy (53, grades 6–12), and Newport Academy (17, grades 7–12). Because several schools serve middle grades as well as high school, their "All Grades" test results are not perfectly comparable with the 9–12 schools.
Technical outperforms Apollo on every current measure. In 2025–2026 all-grades proficiency, Technical reported math 18.8%, reading 30.2%, and science 21.7%, versus Apollo's 15.4%, 28.2%, and 18.7%. Technical's 2024–2025 graduation rate was 83.4% with a 4.6% dropout rate; Apollo's was 71.0% with a 7.6% dropout rate. Both exceed the district science figure of 14.8% but remain below the state's 25.5%. The St. Cloud Area Learning Center has the most difficult profile: a 39.3% graduation rate, a 16.8% dropout rate, 3% math, 0% reading, 9.1% science, and a rank at the 5th percentile. Note that "—" means the state suppressed a value to protect student privacy; it is not a zero.
Among the small schools, Central Minnesota Virtual Academy reported a 7.6% graduation rate and 0.0% dropout rate, while Newport Academy reported 0.0% for both; Alternative Learning Center - Sauk Rapids has no current values in this record. Test scores are suppressed at all three. Free/reduced-lunch rates cluster near 58%–64% at five schools, with Newport Academy an outlier at 17.65%, and Technical has the highest student/teacher ratio at 17.9.
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