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Best High Schools in Zip Code 55912

At a glance

Schools

1,838

Students

Districts

Top rankedAustin Senior High292^nd of 473 Minnesota high schools

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Biggest riser

Austin Senior High up 35 spots statewide this year

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Smallest classes

Austin Senior High 18.1 students per teacher

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Newly ranked this year

Austin Online Academy

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Summary:

Zip code 55912 covers Austin, Minnesota, and includes 4 high schools serving grades 5 through 12 with a combined enrollment of 1,838 students. The group is split between one large comprehensive high school and three much smaller alternative or online settings. Austin Senior High alone enrolls 1,485 students, or about 80.8% of everyone in this list, and is roughly 4.2 times larger than the other three schools combined. It, along with Austin Area Learning Center and Austin Online Academy, belongs to the Austin Public School District, which is ranked 388 of 458 districts statewide. Smec Alternative Learning Center is the smallest school at 70 students and belongs to the Southern MN Education Consortium.

Austin Senior High is the one improving school here: its state rank moved from the 25th percentile in 2023–24 to the 38th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–26, ahead of its own district's 15th percentile and 1 star. Its clearest academic strength is Science, at 27.7% proficient, above the district's 13% and the state's 25.5%. Math (23.6%) and Reading (32.9%) still trail the state's 44.9% and 48.6%, and its dropout rate of 11.8% is nearly three times the state's 4.2%. Austin Online Academy stands out for Reading at 38.5%, above the district's 33.7% and the highest reported here, helped by the lowest free/reduced-lunch rate in the group at 36.04%, though its Math and Science results are low.

Austin Area Learning Center faces the most concentrated challenges: the highest free/reduced-lunch rate (69.19%), the highest student/teacher ratio (35.3), a rank of 469 of 473, and very low reported proficiency in Math (1.3%), Reading (1.6%), and Science (0%). Smec posts the strongest graduation and dropout figures — 87.1% graduation and 0.0% dropout — and the lowest student/teacher ratio at 14.0, but the state suppressed its 2025–26 test scores, so those proficiency levels are unknown rather than zero. Because three of these schools enroll fewer than 180 students, year-to-year rates can swing widely.

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Ranking:

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				MCA-IV Reading (2026)				MCA-IV Science (2026)			MCA-III Math (2026)				Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/reduced lunch (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	MCA-IV Reading 7th Grade	MCA-IV Reading 8th Grade	MCA-IV Reading 10th Grade	MCA-IV Reading All Grades	MCA-IV Science 8th Grade	MCA-IV Science End of Course	MCA-IV Science All Grades	MCA-III Math 7th Grade	MCA-III Math 8th Grade	MCA-III Math 11th Grade	MCA-III Math All Grades	Total
Smec Alternative Learning Center	Public	5-12	21697 State Highway 56	Austin	55912	Mower County	Southern Mn Education Consortium	No	No	No	No	(507) 857-1160	70	5	14.0	61.4%	53 (75.7%)	0 (0.0%)	13 (18.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	4 (5.7%)								(n/a)
SMEC Credit Recovery	Public	9-12	21697 State Highway 56	Austin	55912	Mower County	Southern Mn Education Consortium	No	(n/a)	No	(n/a)	(507) 857-1160	0			—	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()								(n/a)
Austin Senior High	Public	9-12	301 3rd St NW	Austin	55912	Mower County	Austin Public School District	No	No	No	No	(507) 460-1800	1,485	82	18.1	54.9%	578 (38.9%)	119 (8.0%)	508 (34.2%)	178 (12.0%)	3 (0.2%)	48 (3.2%)	51 (3.4%)	40.4	292^nd of 473 public high schools	38.3%		33.7	327^th of 450 public high schools	27.3%	35			32.9	32.9		27.7	27.7			23.6	23.6	$13,519
Austin Area Learning Center	Public	6-12	301 3rd St NW	Austin	55912	Mower County	Austin Public School District	No	No	No	No	(507) 460-1830	172	5	35.3	69.2%	62 (36.0%)	11 (6.4%)	75 (43.6%)	11 (6.4%)	0 (0.0%)	7 (4.1%)	6 (3.5%)	4.4	469^th of 473 public high schools	0.8%		4.9	443^rd of 450 public high schools	1.6%	26	0.0	0.0	4.2	1.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	5.3	0.0	1.3	$15,568
Austin Area Learning Cntr. - Summer	Public	9-12	301 3rd St NW	Austin	55912	Mower County	Austin Public School District	No	No	No	No	(507) 460-1830	0			—	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()								(n/a)												$6,248
Austin Online Academy	Public, Virtual	6-12	301 3rd St NW	Austin	55912	Mower County	Austin Public School District	No	No	Yes	No	(507) 460-1830	111	4	26.8	36.0%	86 (77.5%)	1 (0.9%)	18 (16.2%)	1 (0.9%)	0 (0.0%)	2 (1.8%)	3 (2.7%)	24.9	371^st of 473 public high schools	21.6%					(n/a)			38.5	38.5		7.7	7.7			8.3	8.3

Cities Near Zip Code 55912

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Austin	0.05 mi	18	420^th
Lyle	11.09 mi	4	369^th
Blooming Prairie	14.44 mi	3	116^th
Adams	14.8 mi	6	161^st
Glenville	16.38 mi	3	422^nd

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Minnesota Department of Education.

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