Summary:
ZIP code 55041 has one high school, Lincoln Secondary, serving grades 7–12 with 597 students in Lake City, Minnesota as part of the Lake City Public School District. Because it is the only high school in the ZIP, parents should compare its results with the district, the state, and its own prior years rather than with another local high school. The district overall ranks 210 of 458, at the 54th percentile with 3 stars, while the school’s 2025–2026 rank is 309 of 473, at the 35th percentile with 2 stars.
Its strongest outcomes are completion and parts of math. In 2024–2025, Lincoln Secondary had a 97.2% graduation rate and a 0.9% dropout rate, well above Minnesota’s 84.9% graduation and below the state’s 4.2% dropout rate; the district matched those school rates. Math is mixed but often strong: 8th-grade math was 56.3% versus the state’s 42.3%, and 11th-grade math was 39.1% versus 35.3%. All-grades math was 44.9%, exactly the state average but slightly behind the district’s 46.5%; 7th-grade math was 37.0% versus the state’s 40.3%.
The main academic concerns are science, 10th-grade reading, and year-to-year volatility. In 2025–2026, all-grades science was 13.0% at Lincoln Secondary, compared with 17.8% in the district and 25.5% statewide; End-of-Course science was 16.9% versus 35.0%, and 8th-grade science was 10.3% versus 16.7%. Science also fell from 28.21% in 2024–2025, when it was slightly above the state’s 26.15%. Reading was 42.5% versus the state’s 48.6%, and 10th-grade reading was 28.4% versus 42.5%, though 8th-grade reading was 54.0% versus 50.0%. The school’s rank swung from 1 star in 2023–2024 to 3 stars in 2024–2025 and 2 stars in 2025–2026; with a 19:1 student-teacher ratio and 28.48% free/reduced lunch participation, these results are worth tracking.
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