Summary:
ZIP 55723 is home to two schools serving about 479 students in a PK–12 pair — North Woods Elementary (grades PK–6, enrollment 234) and North Woods Secondary (grades 7–12, enrollment 245) — both part of the St. Louis County School District, which ranks 323 of 458 in Minnesota (29th percentile, 1 star). Because the secondary school covers grades 7–12, middle-grade results appear there rather than at a separate middle school.
The two schools are trending in opposite directions. North Woods Secondary climbed from 24th percentile and 1 star in 2024–25 to 41st percentile and 2 stars in 2025–26, and its graduation rate of 90.9% is above the state's 84.9%, although its dropout rate of 4.5% is slightly above both the state's 4.2% and the district's 3.3%. Its reading results are comparatively solid: all-grade reading is 43.2% (district 40.8%), and 10th grade reading is 47.4%, above district and state. Math is the weak spot — all-grade math is 17.9%, 13.8 points below the district and 27.0 points below the state, with 11th grade math at 9.1% versus the state's 35.3%. North Woods Elementary moved the other way, from 46th percentile and 2 stars in 2023–24 down to 27th percentile and 1 star in 2025–26. Its all-grade math of 35.7% beats the district's 31.7% but trails the state's 44.9%, and reading dropped from 46.55% in 2024–25 to 36.5% in 2025–26.
Science is weak at both schools: 18.9% at the secondary school and 14.7% at the elementary school, against the state's 25.5%. The largest grade-level gaps include 6th grade reading at 23.5% (16.7 points below district, 29.9 below state) and 6th grade math at 20.6%. North Woods Elementary also serves a higher-poverty population, with a 50% free/reduced lunch rate versus 41.22% at the secondary school, and a lower student–teacher ratio of 12.2 versus 13.8.
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