Summary:
ZIP code 55336 covers Glencoe, Minnesota, and contains two high schools serving grades 9–12 with a combined enrollment of 487 students: Glencoe-Silver Lake Senior High in the Glencoe-Silver Lake School District, with 468 students (about 96% of the area's high schoolers), and SWWC Alternative Learning Center - in the Region 6 and 8-SW/Wc Service Coop, with 19 students. Dash ("—") values in the data mean the state suppressed them, not that a score was zero.
Glencoe-Silver Lake Senior High has strong completion results: a 96.0% graduation rate versus Minnesota's 84.9%, and a 2.4% dropout rate versus the state's 4.2%. But academics have fallen sharply. Its latest rank is 362 of 473 schools (23rd percentile, 1 star), down from 198 of 450 (56th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025 and 179 of 480 (63rd percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024. In 2025–2026 the school trailed the state in all three tested subjects: Math 23.9 vs 44.9, Reading 23.0 vs 48.6, and Science 17.3 vs 25.5. That is a drop from 2024–2025, when the school was above the state in Reading and Science. It also sits below its own district in Math (46.5) and Reading (41.6). Classes average 19.8 students per teacher, and 28.85% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch.
The SWWC Alternative Learning Center is a very different setting: 19 students, a 9.4 student-teacher ratio, and 63.16% free/reduced lunch. All of its 2025–2026 school-level test scores are suppressed, and it has no graduation, dropout, or rank data here, so its performance cannot be judged. Its district's test results are low, but those are district figures, not the school's own. Families should weigh the two schools by size, mission, and student needs.
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