Summary:
ZIP code 55355 in Litchfield, Minnesota contains exactly one middle school: Litchfield Middle School, a grades 5–8 campus at 340 E 10th St with 494 students, a 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch rate of 35.02%, and a student-teacher ratio of 15.6. It is the only middle school in the Litchfield Public School District's ZIP 55355 area, so there are no peer schools nearby to compare against; the useful benchmarks are the district, the state, grade levels, and prior years.
By those benchmarks, Litchfield Middle School is a consistently above-average school. It earned a 4-star rating in each of the last three reported years and has ranked in the top quartile of Minnesota middle schools throughout — 79th percentile in 2023–2024, 73rd in 2024–2025, and 76th in 2025–2026 (132 of 546 schools). Reading is its strongest all-grade subject at 50.6% proficient, above both the district (48.5%) and the state (48.6%). The clearest standout is 7th grade math at 66.7% proficient, 26.4 percentage points above the state. Other bright spots include 6th grade reading (62.1%, 8.7 points above the state) and 5th grade science (34.6%, also 8.7 points above the state).
Areas to watch include 5th grade math at 29.0%, which is 12.9 points below the state, and science, where the all-grade rate of 24.9% sits slightly below the state (25.5%) and 3.7 points below the district (28.6%). Science results are split by grade: 5th grade is strong while 8th grade is much weaker at 15.8%. Reading also fades in the upper grades, dropping to 43.8% in 7th and 45.2% in 8th, the latter 4.8 points below the state. Year over year, school scores were fairly stable (math +0.28 points, reading −1.69, science −0.66), while district scores fell more sharply in all three subjects.
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