Summary:
ZIP code 55906 in Rochester, Minnesota contains five schools — two elementary, one middle, and two high schools — serving roughly 3,040 students in grades PK through 12, all within the Rochester Public School District, which ranks 227 of 458 in Minnesota (50th percentile, 3 stars). The district is mid-pack overall, but the individual schools in this ZIP vary widely, so which school a child attends matters a great deal.
The academic standouts are Jefferson Elementary School and Century High School. Jefferson has placed in the top ~10% of Minnesota elementary schools for three straight years (98 of 869, 89th percentile, 4 stars in 2025–26) and posts all-grade proficiency of 69.8% in math, 65.5% in reading, and 37.8% in science — far above district and state. Century, the largest school with 1,608 students, ranks 56 of 473 (88th percentile, 4 stars) and pairs above-average test scores with an 89.1% graduation rate and a 1.2% dropout rate, less than half the district rate and about one-third of the state rate.
Kellogg Middle School sits near the middle statewide (257 of 546, 53rd percentile, 3 stars) but trails district and state in math (32.8%) and science (13.9%, versus 18.8% district and 16.7% state at the tested 8th-grade level). Churchill Elementary School serves PK–2, so it has no test scores — expected, since state testing begins later — and has the highest free/reduced lunch rate at 47.92%. LEAP Launching Emerging Adults Prg enrolls only 7 students, with scores suppressed for privacy; it is a specialized program, not a comparable comprehensive high school. Student-teacher ratios are blank for every school, so class size cannot be assessed from this data.
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