Summary:
The Winona Area Public School District in Minnesota includes three schools classified as high schools — Winona Senior High (grades 9–12), Winona Area Learning Center (grades 5–12), and WALC Extended Day (grades 9–12) — together serving 962 listed students, with the district ranked 268th of 458 in the state, at the 41st percentile with 2 stars.
Winona Senior High is by far the largest, with 849 students, or about 88% of the listed high-school enrollment, and it has the strongest completion outcomes here: a 90.7% graduation rate and a 3.2% dropout rate, both better than the district (84.0% and 4.3%) and state (84.9% and 4.2%). Its academic picture is mixed. Math improved year over year, from 29.03% to 38.7% proficient, and its 11th-grade math rate of 38.7% is above the state's 35.3%. Science is comparatively strong against the district (23.5% versus 16.9% in 2025–2026), though below the state's 25.5%. Reading is the clear weak point at 23.9% proficient in 2025–2026, with 10th-grade reading 18.6 percentage points below the state's 42.5%.
Winona Area Learning Center serves a much higher-poverty population, with 72.83% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch, compared with 33.69% at Winona Senior High and 57.14% at WALC Extended Day, and it reports a lower student-teacher ratio (13.6 versus 17.9). Its completion outcomes are lower — a 63.6% graduation rate and a 7.2% dropout rate — and its 2025–2026 test scores are suppressed by the state, so they should be treated as unknown rather than as evidence of weakness. WALC Extended Day, with only 21 students, has no reported test, rank, graduation, dropout, or student-teacher ratio data, so academic comparisons are not possible. Notably, at tested high-school grades the district's results essentially match Winona Senior High's, meaning district high-school figures are driven largely by that one school.
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