Summary:
ZIP code 55051 has just one middle-level school: Mora Middle Level Alternative Learning Center, part of Mora Public Schools and located at 118 9th St in Mora, MN. It serves grades 6–8 and is an alternative learning center with an enrollment of only 12 students, so there is no other middle school in this ZIP to compare it against.
Where school-level test results are available, the school trails both its district and the state. In all-grade math, the school is at 10%, compared with 51.4% for the district and 44.9% for the state. In all-grade reading, the school is at 30%, versus 57.5% district-wide and 48.6% statewide. Science results and all grade-by-grade scores (7th and 8th grade math and reading, 8th grade science) are suppressed by the state, meaning they are unknown rather than zero. Historical rankings are low but show some movement: the school ranked 492 of 516 (5th percentile, 0 stars) in 2014–2015 and 420 of 520 (19th percentile, 1 star) in 2021–2022 — progress, yet still near the bottom fifth of ranked schools.
Two context points matter for interpreting all of this. First, with only 12 students, a single student's result can shift a proficiency rate by many percentage points, so these figures are highly volatile and hard to compare with larger schools — which is also why so many scores are suppressed. Second, the reported 70.5 student-teacher ratio for 2024–2025 is an unusual outlier, likely reflecting shared staffing or a reporting quirk rather than a literal class size of 70 students per teacher. Free/reduced-price lunch stands at 25% for 2024–2025, with no district or state benchmark provided. Overall, this small alternative learning center shows academic challenges in the reported math and reading results, but the limited and partly suppressed data means these numbers should be read with caution.
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