Best High Schools in Zip Code 55706

ZIP code 55706 covers Babbitt, Minnesota, and contains exactly one high school: Northeast Range Secondary, a grades 7–12 school of 114 students in the St. Louis County School District. With only one school in the area, there is nothing to compare it against locally, so the most useful benchmarks are its own district and the state of Minnesota.

The school's profile is a study in contradictions. It graduates 100% of its students with a 0.0% dropout rate, far ahead of the district's 93.2% and the state's 84.9%. Eleventh-grade math is a genuine bright spot at 25% proficient, roughly double the district's 12.3%, and 8th-grade science at 8.3% edges past the district's 6.9%. Reading is the clear weak point: 21.9% overall trails the district by about 19 points and the state by nearly 27, and 7th-grade reading came in at 0% against a district rate of 36.7%. Eighth-grade math (16.7%) also sits well below the state. Note that 10th-grade reading is suppressed by the state for privacy, so that figure is unknown rather than low.

Year over year, math rose 14.2 points and science 13.9 points while reading slipped about 6.3 points. The school's ranking moved from 402 of 450 (11th percentile) to 349 of 473 (26th percentile) in 2025-26, but that only returns it to roughly its 2023-24 standing — a one-year rebound, not a sustained climb, and still a one-star rating. Context matters: 41.23% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the student–teacher ratio is a favorable 11.1. Because the school is small, a single student can swing a grade-level percentage by many points, so treat individual year figures as directional. The clearest priorities are reading and middle-school math; the clearest strengths are completion, 11th-grade math, and 8th-grade science.