Summary:
Stewartville Public School District in southeastern Minnesota serves 1,935 students across four schools — two elementary, one middle, and one high school — with no alternative school listed. The district is rated 4 stars and ranked 117th of 458 Minnesota districts, placing it in the 74th percentile. Enrollment is distributed fairly evenly: Stewartville Senior High is the largest school with 608 students, followed by Stewartville Middle (480), Bear Cave Intermediate School (436), and Bonner Elementary (411). Bonner serves grades K–2, so it has no state test results in this data — that absence reflects its grade span, not a performance weakness.
Bear Cave Intermediate School is the academic standout. In 2025–26 it ranked 172nd of 869 schools (80th percentile, 4 stars) and exceeded state averages in all three tested subjects: 62.6% in math versus 44.9% statewide, 61.7% in reading versus 48.6%, and 34.2% in science versus 25.5%. Its rank percentile has climbed steadily from 74th to 80th over three years. Stewartville Senior High shows strong completion outcomes — a 92.9% graduation rate (state: 84.9%) and a 3.1% dropout rate (state: 4.2%) — and its 38.6% science proficiency is above the state's 25.5%, though its 28.0% math proficiency falls well below both the district (47.1%) and state (44.9%).
Stewartville Middle is rated 3 stars and has slipped from the 65th to the 59th percentile. Its clearest weakness is science at 12.5%, far below the district's 28.4% and the state's 25.5%, and its 8th-grade math result (29.7%) trails the state's 42.3%. Districtwide, math proficiency declines sharply after elementary school — 62.6% at Bear Cave, 36.7% at the middle school, and 28.0% at the high school — while reading remains close to state levels at every grade level tested.
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