Summary:
Zip code 55066 contains two middle schools serving very different populations: Twin Bluff School in Red Wing, a grades 5–7 school with 502 students in Red Wing Public School District, and Pathways Program Grades 6-7, a grades 6–7 program with just 10 students in Goodhue County Education District. Twin Bluff accounts for roughly 98% of the middle-school enrollment in this ZIP.
Twin Bluff’s state ranking has climbed from 293 of 545 (46th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–2024 to 273 of 546 (50th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026. That places it above its own district’s overall standing (364 of 458, 21st percentile, 1 star), yet it still trails Minnesota averages in every all-grade subject: math 35.5 vs 44.9, reading 40.1 vs 48.6, and science 19 vs 25.5. Its brightest spot is 6th-grade math at 42.4, above the state’s 39.5, while 5th-grade math (28.8 vs 41.9) and 7th-grade reading (32.3 vs 43.5) show the widest gaps. Year over year, math rose 5.48 points, but reading fell 4.46 and science 4.78.
Pathways enrolls 10 students with a 4.6 student-teacher ratio and a 70% free/reduced-lunch rate, compared with 15.9 and 30.08% at Twin Bluff. Its school-level math and reading scores are suppressed by the state, meaning they are unknown rather than zero, so its academic performance cannot be evaluated from this data. District-level figures for Goodhue County sit far below state averages (all-grade math 8.8 vs 44.9; reading 20 vs 48.6), but those are district values, not school results. Families should compare these two schools cautiously, given their very different sizes, grade spans, and district structures.
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