Summary:
ZIP code 55355 covers Litchfield, Minnesota, and contains three high schools serving grades 7 through 12: Litchfield Senior High (grades 9–12), Wings Alternative Program (grades 7–12), and Litchfield Area Learning Program (grades 10–12). Enrollment totals 478 students, and the picture is highly concentrated: Litchfield Senior High enrolls 448 students, about 93.7% of the total, while the two alternative programs enroll just 16 and 14 students.
Litchfield Senior High stands out for both size and outcomes. Its 2024–25 graduation rate is 95.9% against 84.9% statewide, and its dropout rate is 3.0% against 4.2% statewide; it also beats its own Litchfield Public School District on both. In 2025–26 testing, science is the relative strength at 37.2% proficient versus 25.5% for the state, math is also above state (47.3% vs. 44.9%), and reading is essentially even (48% vs. 48.6%). The district is rated 4 stars, ranked 130 of 458, and the school itself sits at 4 stars and the 77th percentile after a 5-star year in 2024–25 — a volatile but currently strong pattern. Scores did decline from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in math, reading, and science; the reading drop should be read cautiously because the exam label changed from MCA-III to MCA-IV.
The two alternative programs serve much higher-need populations: free/reduced lunch is 81.25% at Wings Alternative Program, run by Meeker and Wright Special Education, and 71.43% at Litchfield Area Learning Program, compared with 29.24% at Litchfield Senior High. Both have far smaller student/teacher ratios (8 and 10.4, versus 18.1) and much less comparable data — many test values are suppressed, meaning unknown rather than zero. Wings reports 27.3% reading proficiency versus 48.6% statewide. Litchfield Area Learning's 100% graduation and 0% dropout in 2019–20 are dated and based on a tiny cohort, and no current school-level values are shown.
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