Summary:
Staples-Motley School District is home to a single high school serving grades 9–12: Staples-Motley Senior High, located at 401 Centennial Dr in Staples, Minnesota, with 309 students. Because it is the only high school in the Staples-Motley School District, its results also stand in for the district's high school figures, and the most useful comparison for families is the school against the state. About 38.19% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is 16.3.
Completion outcomes are the school's clearest strength. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate is 94.2%, well above Minnesota's 84.9% — a 9.3 percentage-point advantage — and its dropout rate of 2.9% is below the state's 4.2%. Science is also a relative bright spot: in 2025–2026 science proficiency is 32.9% at the school versus 19% in the district and 25.5% statewide, and in 2024–2025 it was 45.57% versus 30.14% district and 26.15% state. One caveat: the 32.9% End-of-Course science figure sits slightly below the state EOC benchmark of 35%.
Math is the most consistent challenge. In 2025–2026 math proficiency is 25% at the school, compared with 39.9% in the district and 44.9% statewide, and the 11th-grade figure of 25% is 10.3 points below the state's 35.3%. Reading has been volatile: 51.95% in 2024–2025, above the state's 49.59%, then 41.7% in 2025–2026, above the district's 37.3% but below the state's 48.6%. All three subjects declined year over year, and the school's rank percentile slipped from 65 to 50 over three years, though it retains 3 stars.
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