Fisher Secondary

Fisher Secondary is a small rural public high school in Fisher, MN, in the northwest part of the state, serving grades 7–12 with 99 students as the secondary campus of the Fisher Public School District.

By overall academic standing, Fisher is the strongest high school in its immediate rural cluster, ranked 62nd of 473 Minnesota high schools — 87th percentile, 4 stars — for 2025-2026, its best showing in a decade. That outranks East Grand Forks Senior High (50th percentile), Crookston Secondary (36th) and Climax Secondary (20th), even though Crookston and East Grand Forks are roughly six times larger. Science is a relative strength: 28.1% proficiency exceeds the state's 25.5% and beats Crookston and Climax, and the school's End-of-Course science figure is 18.8 points above the state average. Tenth-grade reading and 11th-grade math also sit above state averages. Class sizes are the smallest in the comparison group at a 9.9-to-1 student-teacher ratio, and the 5.0% dropout rate is the lowest of the four schools.

Two cautions are worth weighing. The graduation rate is the persistent weak spot — 70.0% is the lowest of the four schools and 14.9 points below the state, with no year in the past five above 77.7%. And the middle grades lag well behind the high school grades: 8th-grade math proficiency is far below the state, pulling down the all-grade averages even as upper-grade results climb. With only 99 students, a handful of test-takers can move percentages by several points, so year-to-year figures are best read as small-sample estimates.