Summary
Chisholm Elementary is a middle school serving grades 4–6 with 142 students in the Chisholm Public School District in Chisholm, Minnesota, a small Iron Range community where 62.68% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and the student-teacher ratio is a relatively low 12.8.
Academically, Chisholm is a district leader but trails the state in two of three subjects. In 2025–26, math proficiency was 26.7%, which is 18.2 percentage points below the state average and the school's clearest area of concern; math scores decline from 4th grade (32.6%) to 6th grade (21.4%). Reading was 44.0%, about 4.6 points below the state but 10.3 points above the district, and it has been the most competitive subject over time — Chisholm even exceeded the state in reading in 2023–24. Science was 27.7%, above the state's 25.5% and well above the district's 19.2%, but it has swung widely across recent years, from 52.63% in 2022–23 down to 22.73% in 2024–25, partly because science is only tested in grade 5. Across the last four years, Chisholm has generally outperformed its own district in all three subjects, even though the district itself lags the state in math and reading.
The closest comparison school is Lincoln Middle School in the Hibbing Public School District, about 4.81 miles away. Lincoln serves grades 4–7, enrolls 647 students, and ranked 191 of 546 schools (65th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–26, while Chisholm has no rank listed here. Lincoln has a lower free/reduced-lunch rate (48.38%) and larger classes (18.1 students per teacher), yet it currently outperforms Chisholm in every overlapping grade and subject, including math (39.0% vs 26.7%) and reading (51.7% vs 44.0%), with science relatively close (29.3% vs 27.7%). Because Chisholm is small, a few students can shift its percentages noticeably from year to year.
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