Summary:
The Winona Area Public School District in southeastern Minnesota serves roughly 2,389 students across seven listed schools — three elementary, one middle, and three high schools — and is ranked 268th of 458 Minnesota districts, placing it in the 41st percentile with 2 stars. Winona Senior High (849 students) and Winona Middle (665) are the largest; WALC Extended Day (21) is the smallest.
Washington-Kosciusko Elementary is the district's strongest current performer and biggest improver: math proficiency is 57.1% (above the district's 38.4% and the state's 44.9%) and reading is 44.3%, up from 36.56% and 30.43% a year earlier, with its rank rising from the 21st to the 52nd percentile. It also has the district's lowest student/teacher ratio at 10.1, despite a high free/reduced-lunch rate of 60.17%. Goodview Elementary posted the best 2024-2025 scores (math 55.95%, reading 45.78%), but its rank has slipped from the 84th to the 52nd percentile and no current test data is available. Jefferson Elementary has solid math (47.8%) but declining reading (41.7%). Winona Middle made the largest rank jump, from the low 20s to the 47th percentile, with the best reading in the district (45.8%), though science remains very low at 13.8%.
Winona Senior High shows a paradox: a 90.7% graduation rate and 3.2% dropout rate beat both district and state, yet only 23.9% of students were proficient in reading, versus 42.0% districtwide and 48.6% statewide. Reading is the district's clearest weakness — no tested school reached the state average. Winona Area Learning Center faces concentrated challenges: the highest free/reduced-lunch rate (72.83%), lowest graduation rate (63.6%), and highest dropout rate (7.2%). Its 2025-2026 scores are suppressed, as are WALC Extended Day's, which has no performance data at all. Suppressed values are unknown, not zero.
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