Summary:
Zip code 55371 in Princeton, Minnesota is served by Princeton Public School District and contains 10 schools — 3 elementary, 2 middle, and 5 high (a count that includes several small online, credit-recovery, learning-center, and transition programs) — enrolling 3,189 students, with the district ranked 141 of 458 in Minnesota at the 69th percentile with 3 stars.
Four comprehensive schools hold about 93.9% of that enrollment: Princeton High School (940 students), Princeton Middle School (740), Princeton Intermediate School (675), and Princeton Primary School (639). The clearest academic standout is Princeton Intermediate School, where math proficiency is 56% — above the district's 45.5% and the state's 44.9% — and reading is 51.5%. All three tested elementary grades beat the state in math. Its weak spot is science at 19.8%, below both district (24.1%) and state (25.5%).
Princeton High School posts strong completion outcomes — a 94.5% graduation rate and 2.9% dropout rate, both better than district and state — but its all-grade math (41%) and reading (34.9%) trail the district and state, and its rank slipped to 55th percentile from 74th and 77th in the two prior years. Princeton Middle School is stable (64th percentile), with reading near the state but math (38%) and science (20.3%) below it. Princeton Online MN 6-8 has the highest current rank (127 of 546, 77th percentile, 4 stars) and strong reading (54.5%), but math is just 26.1% with only 25 students. Smaller programs often report no test data; those blanks are unknown, not zeros. Student/teacher ratios are lowest at the primary level (11.1).
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