Summary:
ZIP code 55736 is home to a single high school: Floodwood Secondary, located in Floodwood, Minnesota and part of the Floodwood Public School District. It serves grades 7–12 with about 80 students, a small student-teacher ratio of 11.5, and 40% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch. Because it is the only high school in the area, there are no neighboring schools to compare it against — the useful comparisons are to its own district, to Minnesota averages, and across school years.
The school's strongest results are in completion. In 2024–25 it posted a 100.0% graduation rate and a 0.0% dropout rate, both far better than Minnesota's 84.9% and 4.2%. Science is the relative bright spot academically: the school beat its district in both reported years (18.2% vs. 14.9% in 2025–26, and 14.29% vs. 8.33% in 2024–25), and 8th-grade science at 15% came close to the state's 16.7%. 7th-grade math, at 40%, was essentially at the state level of 40.3%.
Test proficiency is where the school struggles. In 2025–26, all-grade math was 27.5% (state 44.9%) and reading was 25.0% (state 48.6%) — a 23.6-point reading gap. Several grade-level results are well below state: 11th-grade math at 0% (state 35.3%), 7th-grade reading at 10% (state 43.5%), and 8th-grade reading at 28.6% (state 50%). Math and reading also fell sharply from the prior year, while science rose. The most recent ranking is 367 of 473 schools (22nd percentile, 1 star), down from 3 stars in 2024–25. With only 80 students, year-to-year swings can be large, so a single year's decline should be read with caution.
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