Summary:
Zip code 55946 is home to three public schools, all part of the Kenyon-Wanamingo School District, serving roughly 644 students across the full PK–12 pipeline: Kenyon-Wanamingo Elementary (PK–4, 198 students), Kenyon-Wanamingo Middle (5–8, 216 students), and Kenyon-Wanamingo Senior High (9–12, 230 students). There are no alternative schools here. The district overall ranks 214 of 458 in Minnesota, a 53rd percentile rating with 3 stars — but that average masks wide differences among the three schools.
The elementary school is the strongest of the three, ranking at the 66th percentile with 3 stars. Its all-grade math proficiency of 59.2% and reading proficiency of 56.6% both beat the district (31.3% math, 49.8% reading) and the state (44.9% math, 48.6% reading). Third-grade results are especially strong — 73.2% in math and 65.9% in reading, well above state levels — though 4th grade dips below the state in both subjects. The middle school ranks at the 52nd percentile with 3 stars and reads well (50.3%, slightly above the state), but its math (24.5%) and science (11.8%) lag far behind state levels, including a 5th-grade math score of 9.3%. The high school ranks lowest at the 33rd percentile with 2 stars; its math (15.4%) and reading (35.7%) are below the state, and reading fell sharply from 50.98% the prior year.
One striking contrast is that the high school's graduation rate of 86.9% is above the state's 84.9%, and its dropout rate of 4.3% is barely above the state's 4.2% — completion outcomes look stronger than test scores. Science is volatile across the secondary schools: high school science dropped from 46.15% to 25%, and middle school science from 26.55% to 11.8%. Class sizes also differ, with the middle school at the highest student-teacher ratio (18.9) and the elementary school at the lowest (14.8). The clearest opportunities for the district are secondary math, middle and high school science, and high school reading.
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