Summary:
ZIP code 55720 in Cloquet, Minnesota contains 10 schools serving roughly 2,652 students across the full K–12 pipeline plus alternative settings, operated by three separate entities: Cloquet Public School District (seven schools, about 2,446 students, ranked 179 of 458 statewide — 61st percentile, 3 stars), Northern Lights Academy Cooperative (two schools, 45 students), and Fond du Lac Ojibwe School (161 students). Two campuses — Cloquet Senior (761) and Cloquet Middle (752) — hold 57% of all students.
The academic leader is Churchill Elementary, with the ZIP's highest math proficiency (64.9%) and reading proficiency (58.1%), plus the lowest student-teacher ratio among district schools at 10:1. Washington Elementary also beats district and state averages in both subjects. Cloquet Middle is the biggest riser, climbing 54 → 69 → 75 in rank percentile, and Cloquet Senior graduates 94.9% of students versus 84.9% statewide, with a 1.6% dropout rate.
The clearest concerns are concentrated. Cloquet Senior's math proficiency (29%) falls 15.9 points below the state, and 8th-grade science at Cloquet Middle is 13.5% versus 16.7% statewide. Cloquet Area Alternative Education Programs posted 0% math proficiency two years running and a 4.5% dropout rate above the state's 4.2%. Fond du Lac Ojibwe School serves the highest-need population (98.14% free/reduced lunch) at a 5.7:1 ratio but publishes no state test data. For Northern Lights Academy, CAAEP Extended Day Program, and Shared Time, the state suppresses all results — no conclusion about performance can be drawn.
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