Summary:
ZIP code 55063 covers Pine City, Minnesota, where two high schools serve local students: Pine City Secondary, which serves grades 7–12, and Pine City Area Learning Center, which serves grades 9–12, both within the Pine City Public School District, ranked 230 of 458 districts in the state at the 50th percentile with 3 stars.
Pine City Secondary is much the larger school, with 683 students, and it is the stronger performer on completion metrics: its 91.5% graduation rate is above the district’s 83.3% and the state’s 84.9%, and its 2.8% dropout rate is below the district’s 3.1% and the state’s 4.2%. In 2025–2026 it ranked 217 of 473, at the 54th percentile with 3 stars, keeping it above the median for three recent years. Test results are mixed. All-grade math is 40.5% (state 44.9%), all-grade reading is 41.9% (state 48.6%), and all-grade science is 15.2%, below the district’s 18.2% and far below the state’s 25.5%; science is a clear weakness across grade levels, including 8th-grade science at 8.2% (state 16.7%). Bright spots include 11th-grade math at 40.7% (state 35.3%) and 7th-grade math at 43.0% (state 40.3%).
The Area Learning Center serves only 22 students and looks very different: 59.09% of its students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, compared with 36.02% at Pine City Secondary, and its student-teacher ratio is lower (16.5 versus 19.2). Its reported outcomes are less favorable, with a 36.8% graduation rate and a 5.2% dropout rate, and its most recent listed rank, from 2021–2022, was 417 of 472 at the 12th percentile with 1 star — not a current measure of the school. All of its MCA proficiency scores are suppressed by the state, so they are unknown rather than zero.
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