Summary:
ZIP code 55949 is served by a single high school: Lanesboro Secondary, a grades 7–12 school with 193 students in the Lanesboro Public School District in southeastern Minnesota. Because it is the only high school in the area, there is no side-by-side comparison to make — this is a profile of one school, and it also defines the district's secondary results, since district and school figures match at most grade levels.
Academically, current results trail the state in every tested subject. All-grade math is 37.0% versus 44.9% statewide, reading is 42.0% versus 48.6%, and science is 18.3% versus 25.5%. Science is the weakest area: 8th grade science proficiency is 7.4% compared with 16.7% across Minnesota. There are bright spots at specific grade levels, though — 8th grade reading is above the state at 53.3% versus 50%, and 7th grade math is slightly above at 41.7% versus 40.3%. The school also improved modestly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in math and reading, but the district improved by more, so the school lost ground relative to its own district even while gaining slightly overall.
Two other signals matter for families. The school's state ranking has fallen from 108 of 480 (78th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024 to 249 of 473 (47th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026 — a 31-percentile-point drop in two years. On the positive side, completion indicators are stronger than test scores: the dropout rate is 3.1% versus 4.2% statewide, graduation is 84.3% versus 84.9%, and the student-teacher ratio is 12:1. With only 193 students across six grades, individual cohorts are small and year-to-year percentages can swing on a few students, so the multi-year ranking trend is a better guide than any single year.
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