Summary:
ZIP code 55021 covers Faribault, Minnesota, where two middle schools serve local families, both within the Faribault Public School District: Faribault Middle (grades 6–8) and Falcons Online Academy-Middle (grades 5–8). Together they enroll 603 students. The district ranks 409th of 458 in the state — the 11th percentile — with a 1-star rating.
Faribault Middle is by far the larger school, enrolling 594 of the area's 603 middle-school students, about 98.5%, and it is the only one with publicly reported test scores. Reading is its relative bright spot: 28.8% of all grades were proficient, just above the district's 27.9%, and its 6th-grade reading result of 39% is the highest in the data set. Math (11%) and science (6.4%) are much lower. Falcons Online Academy-Middle serves only 9 students and has the lower student-teacher ratio (8.8 versus Faribault Middle's 13.5), but its school-level test scores are suppressed by the state, shown as "—". Those scores are unknown — not zero — so no performance conclusion can be drawn for this school.
Compared with state benchmarks, Faribault Middle's results are far below average in every subject: math at 11% versus the state's 44.9%, reading at 28.8% versus 48.6%, and science at 6.4% versus 25.5%. Science is the weakest subject relative to the state and fell from 8.9% to 6.4% year over year; reading improved slightly from 27.53% to 28.8%, and math was essentially flat at 11%. The school's rank history places it in the bottom 10–14th percentile of Minnesota middle schools for three straight years with 1 star. Both schools serve high-poverty populations, with free/reduced-lunch rates of 69.36% at Faribault Middle and 66.67% at Falcons Online Academy-Middle.
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