Crosslake Community 6-12 Online

Crosslake Community 6-12 Online is a virtual charter school in Crosslake, MN, in the Crow Wing County lakes area, serving grades 6–12 with 311 students. Its operator, Crosslake Community Charter School, is a single-school charter district. Statewide, it ranked 409th of 473 Minnesota high schools in 2025–2026 (14th percentile, 1 star), and its six-year rank history stays in the 11th–25th percentile band with 1 star each year. Its local peers vary widely: Pequot Lakes Senior High ranks 66th (86th percentile) and Crosby-Ironton Secondary ranks 104th (78th), while Pine River-Backus High School ranks 370th (22nd). Pine River-Backus ALP, an alternative program, was not ranked this year.

Reading is the school’s relative strength: 35.4% proficient versus the state’s 48.6%, and 8th grade reading is 50%, exactly the state figure. Math is the largest gap: 7.9% proficient versus the state’s 44.9% — 37 points below — and behind Crosby-Ironton Secondary (36.7%), Pequot Lakes Senior High (31.9%), and Pine River-Backus High School (23.0%). Science is 7.7% versus the state’s 25.5%, down from 33.33% in 2022–23. Math improved from 2.63% in 2024–25 to 7.9%, but from a very low base.

Completion outcomes are the most divergent. In 2024–25, graduation was 64.2% (state 84.9%) and dropout 13.6% (state 4.2%) — the highest dropout rate in the comparison group, above even Pine River-Backus ALP (52.6% graduation, 0.0% dropout). Pine River-Backus High School graduates 96.4% with 0.0% dropout; Pequot Lakes Senior High 92.2% and 1.9%; Crosby-Ironton Secondary 77.9% and 11.6%. Graduation has improved from 57.1% in 2020–21 and 56.7% in 2021–22 to 64.2%, peaking at 67.3% in 2023–24, but dropout has not fallen (12.5% → 13.4% → 12.3% → 9.7% → 13.6%). Poverty (49.5% free/reduced lunch) is mid-pack, lower than Pine River-Backus High School (56.1%), so demographics alone do not explain the gap. The school also has the highest student-teacher ratio of the conventional schools (17.3).