Summary:
ZIP code 55335 contains exactly one middle school: GFW Middle School, which serves grades 5–8 in Gibbon, MN as part of GFW Public Schools. With 121 students, it is the only middle school option in this ZIP code, and its district is ranked 258 of 458 in Minnesota—the 44th percentile with a 2-star rating. About 49.59% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 12.7.
Reading is the school’s clearest relative strength: 46.2% of all students were proficient in 2025–2026, above the district’s 44.0% and only 2.4 points below the state’s 48.6%. Grade-level reading results range from 40.5% in 7th grade to 51.2% in 6th grade, with 6th grade close to the state average of 53.4%. Science is the lowest subject at 12.8%, well below both the district’s 25.4% and the state’s 25.5%. Math is also below benchmarks at 26.7%, compared with 31.9% in the district and 44.9% statewide; 7th grade math is the weakest at 18.9%, which is 21.4 points below the state average of 40.3%, while 6th grade math is stronger at 35.0%, 4.5 points below the state.
The school’s ranking has declined from 2023–2024, when it was 252 of 545, in the 54th percentile with 3 stars, to 2024–2025 at 297 of 519, in the 43rd percentile with 2 stars. In 2025–2026 it improved slightly to 299 of 546, the 45th percentile, but remains at 2 stars and below its earlier position. Year over year, math rose 2.35 points, science rose 3.50 points, and reading slipped 0.29 points. For parents, the main bright spots are reading overall and 6th-grade math, while the biggest challenges are science and 7th-grade math.
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