Summary:
Zip code 55936 in southern Minnesota contains just one middle school: Grand Meadow Middle, part of the Grand Meadow Public School District. It serves grades 5–8 with 131 students, making it a small school where families can expect a close-knit setting. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP code, there are no local peers to compare it against; the useful comparisons are to its district, to Minnesota averages, and to its own performance over time.
Grand Meadow Middle is a stable, 3-star school. In 2025–2026 it ranked 203 out of 546 Minnesota middle schools — the 63rd percentile — and has held roughly the 61st–63rd percentile for three years running. Reading is its strongest subject: 52.9% of students were proficient, above both the district (50.4%) and the state (48.6%). Fifth-grade Reading (60.5%) and sixth-grade Reading (57.5%) are especially strong. Science improved markedly, from 20% proficiency in 2024–2025 to 26.8% in 2025–2026, now above district and state averages. Math remains the clear challenge: 33.3% proficiency, below the district (35.4%) and well below the state (44.9%), though this is up from 27.05% the prior year — a meaningful gain.
For parents, the most important detail is that seventh grade is the weakest group, trailing the state in both Math (25.9% vs. 40.3%) and Reading (37.0% vs. 43.5%), while other grades generally perform at or above state levels in Reading. Context for the school: 27.48% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, indicating roughly one in four students is economically disadvantaged by that measure, and the student-teacher ratio was 19.5. Overall, this is an above-median school that is getting better in Math and Science, with Reading as its consistent bright spot.
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