Summary:
ZIP code 55362 contains two middle schools serving grades 6–8: Monticello Middle, a large comprehensive school with 860 students, and Monticello Middle School - SNW, a 14-student program — together enrolling about 874 students in the Monticello area. Monticello Middle is part of the Monticello Public School District, while SNW belongs to Sherburne and Northern Wright Speci. Monticello Middle accounts for roughly 98.4% of the area's middle school enrollment.
Monticello Middle is the clear academic standout, ranked 88th of 546 Minnesota middle schools in 2025–2026 — the 84th percentile with 4 stars — up from the 75th percentile the prior year. Its all-grade reading proficiency is 56.9%, above the district's 54.8% and 8.3 points above the state's 48.6%; 6th-grade reading reaches 65.5%, 12.1 points above the state. Math is 49.0% overall, 4.1 points above the state but 1.5 points below the district, and it climbs from 41.2% in 6th grade to 56.6% in 8th grade — 14.3 points above the state at that level. Science is the relative weak spot: 20.1% overall, below both the district's 29.1% and the state's 25.5%, though 8th-grade science sits 3.4 points above the state.
Monticello Middle School - SNW stands out for scale rather than scores: 14 students and a student/teacher ratio of 3.7, compared with 17.2 at Monticello Middle. Its school-level test scores are suppressed by the state to protect student privacy, so its academic performance is unknown from this data — not zero and not evidence of low performance. Notably, the two schools report nearly identical free/reduced lunch rates, 28.84% and 28.57%.
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