Schools in Zip Code 55063

Zip code 55063 is home to four schools serving about 1,587 students: one elementary school, two high schools, and one alternative K–12 school. Three of them — Pine City Elementary, Pine City Secondary, and Pine City Area Learning Center — are in Pine City Public School District, ranked 230 of 458 in Minnesota (50th percentile, 3 stars). The fourth, Vision, is an alternative K–12 school in St. Croix River Education District. There is no separate middle school here: the elementary covers PK–6 and the secondary covers 7–12, so middle-grade results appear within the secondary school.

Pine City Secondary has the strongest reported outcomes, with a 91.5% graduation rate (above the district's 83.3% and the state's 84.9%) and a 2.8% dropout rate (below the district's 3.1% and the state's 4.2%). It ranks 217 of 473, at the 54th percentile with 3 stars. Pine City Elementary is the largest school at 863 students, ranking 543 of 869 — 38th percentile, 2 stars — and its 5th-grade reading result of 55.4% edges past the state's 54.5%. The two smallest schools serve very different populations: Pine City Area Learning Center enrolls 22 students, with a 36.8% graduation rate and 5.2% dropout rate, while Vision enrolls 19 students and has the highest free/reduced lunch share (63.16%) and lowest student-teacher ratio (6.3).

Science is the clearest weak spot where data exists: the secondary school posts 15.2% all-grades science against the state's 25.5%, including 8th-grade science at 8.2% versus 16.7%. Reading trails the state at both traditional schools (40.8% and 41.9% versus 48.6%), and 4th-grade reading at the elementary school is 28.4% against 48.8%. There are bright spots too — 11th-grade math at 40.7% and 7th-grade math at 43.0% both beat the state, and elementary science jumped from 15.04% to 24.3% year over year. Note that several test scores are suppressed by the state, meaning proficiency for those grades and schools is unknown.