Summary:
Zip code 55720 covers Cloquet, Minnesota, and is home to three high schools, all part of the Cloquet Public School District, which is ranked 179 of 458 Minnesota districts (61st percentile, 3 stars). Together they enroll 842 students, but the picture is dominated by one school: Cloquet Senior serves grades 9–12 with 761 students, about 90% of the area's high-school enrollment. Cloquet Area Alternative Education Programs serves grades 6–12 with 74 students, and CAAEP Extended Day Program serves grades 9–12 with just 7 students.
Cloquet Senior is the area's comprehensive high school and posts the strongest reported outcomes. Its graduation rate is 94.9%, above the district's 90.7% and the state's 84.9%, and its dropout rate of 1.6% is well below the state's 4.2%. Science proficiency (37%) is above both district (25.9%) and state (25.5%), and reading (50.3%) is above the state (48.6%). Math is the clear weak point: 29%, below the district's 48.1% and the state's 44.9%, and down from 34.67% the prior year. The school ranks 162 of 473 (66th percentile, 3 stars), up from the 53rd percentile the year before.
Cloquet Area Alternative Education Programs reports much lower outcomes: a 77.2% graduation rate, a 4.5% dropout rate, and 2025–2026 proficiency of 0% in math, 18.8% in reading, and 13.3% in science. It ranks 418 of 473 (12th percentile, 1 star). Alternative settings serve different student populations and missions, so these results should be read with that context in mind. CAAEP Extended Day Program has all test scores suppressed as —, along with no rank, graduation, dropout, FRPL, or student-teacher ratio; suppression protects student privacy and means no academic judgment can be made about it.
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