Summary:
ZIP code 55917 covers Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, and is home to three public schools serving roughly 864 students: Blooming Prairie Elementary (PK–4, 341 students), Blooming Prairie Intermediate School (5–6, 138 students), and Blooming Prairie High School (7–12, 385 students). All three belong to Blooming Prairie Public Schools, which ranks 103 of 458 Minnesota districts — 78th percentile with 4 stars — and scores above the state in math (+4.4 points), reading (+1.8), and science (+6.7).
Blooming Prairie High School is the standout: it climbed from about the 54th percentile and 3 stars in 2024–2025 to the 95th percentile and 5 stars in 2025–2026, with a 94.5% graduation rate vs. 84.9% statewide. Its 10th-grade reading (56.9% vs. 42.5%), end-of-course science (59.4% vs. 35.0%), and 11th-grade math (46.7% vs. 35.3%) all sit well above state. Because it serves grades 7–12, however, it also contains middle-grade weaknesses: 8th-grade science is 6.8% vs. 16.7% state — the lowest figure in the data — while 7th- and 8th-grade reading and 8th-grade math are also below state. Its dropout rate (5.4%) runs 1.2 points above state.
Among the younger grades, math is strongest at Blooming Prairie Elementary, where all-grade math (70.2%) far outpaces the district (49.3%) and state (44.9%), and 3rd-grade math is 78.6% vs. 57.9% state. Elementary reading, though, fell 8.46 points to 49.2%. Blooming Prairie Intermediate School shines in reading (58.4% vs. 48.6% state; 5th grade 67.1%) and lifted science from 16.42% to 34.3%, but 6th-grade math (29.9% vs. 39.5%) drags it down — a sharp split from strong 5th-grade math (55.7%). The elementary has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 11.5, versus 14.2 and 16.4 at the intermediate and high school.
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