Summary:
ZIP code 55904 has 16 schools serving PK–12 students — six elementary, two middle, seven high, and one alternative — all in the Rochester Public School District (ranked 227 of 458, 50th percentile, 3 stars), with total enrollment of 5,860. Enrollment is concentrated: Mayo High School alone has 1,787 students, about 30.5% of the total. Student-teacher ratio is blank for every school, so class-size comparisons are not possible.
Lincoln K-8 School (rank 126 of 869, 86th percentile, 4 stars) is the academic standout, with All-Grades proficiency of Math 62.4%, Reading 61.3%, and Science 38.5% — all above district and state averages — and the lowest reported free/reduced-lunch rate at 17%. Mayo High School (rank 100 of 473, 79th percentile, 4 stars) leads among high schools with a 91.8% graduation rate versus 86.2% district and 84.9% state, and a 2.8% dropout rate versus 3.0% and 4.2%. Only Lincoln, Longfellow, and Mayo beat both district and state averages in Math; only Lincoln and Mayo did so in Reading and Science. Willow Creek Middle School is improving (43rd → 51st → 62nd percentile), and Riverside Central Elementary School rose from 7th percentile/0 stars to 20th percentile/1 star, though proficiency there stays low.
Several schools sit in the bottom quartile: Franklin Elementary School (25th percentile, 1 star), Pinewood Elementary School (18th percentile, 1 star), and Riverside Central Elementary School (20th percentile, 1 star). Longfellow Elementary School declined from 51st to 56th to 45th percentile and dropped from 3 stars to 2. Alternative and online programs — Rochester Alternative Learning Center (3rd percentile, 0 stars), Middle School Alternative Learning Center (4th percentile, 0 stars), MNSync Online Secondary (11th percentile, 1 star), and Rochester Phoenix Academy — post the lowest proficiency and graduation outcomes, but they serve small, specialized populations. Where the state suppressed results, treat those values as unknown rather than zero or failure.
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