Summary:
Worthington Public School District in Minnesota serves 3,937 students across 8 schools — 3 elementary, 1 middle, and 4 high schools — and is ranked 372 of 458 districts statewide (19th percentile, 1 star). Enrollment is concentrated: Worthington Senior High alone has 1,118 students, about 28% of the district, and the four largest schools enroll roughly 81% of all students. Prairie Elementary serves PK–2 and shows no MCA test scores, which is expected for that grade span. Learning Center Night shows only lunch and ratio data.
Reading is where individual schools stand out. Virtual Instruction by Excellence S posts the district's highest all-grade Reading at 63.6%, above both district (33.8%) and state (48.6%), while Virtual Instruction by Excellence E reports 52.8%, also above state. Virtual E has the lowest free/reduced lunch rate (37.45%) but the highest student-teacher ratio (49.8), and its scores fell sharply from 2024–25, when Math was 58.33% and Reading 77.78%; its rank dropped from 96/872 (89th percentile, 4 stars) to 489/869 (44th percentile, 2 stars). Worthington Middle is the clearest improvement story, with rank percentile rising from 24 to 28 to 37 and its rating improving from 1 star to 2 stars.
The district trails the state in every tested subject: 28.3% Math, 33.8% Reading, and 9.8% Science, versus 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. No reporting school beats the state in all-grade Math or Science; Intermediate School has the highest Science at 16.5%, still below the state. Completion metrics diverge from test scores: Learning Center reports 0% Math and 4.8% Reading yet has a 76.1% graduation rate and 5.9% dropout rate, better than the district's 67.0% and 19.0%. Worthington Senior High has the highest dropout at 22.6%, and Virtual S graduates only 27.2%. Some values are suppressed, including Science for both virtual schools, so those comparisons cannot be made.
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