Summary:
ZIP code 55953 is home to a single middle school: Lyle Middle, serving grades 5–8 with 99 students in Lyle, Minnesota, as part of Lyle Public School District. With roughly 25 students or fewer per grade, it is a small school; its 2024–2025 context indicators show a free/reduced lunch rate of 57.58% and a student-teacher ratio of 21.2, with no state or district comparison provided for those two measures. Because there is only one school here, the useful benchmarks are the district and the state rather than other local schools.
Reading is the clear relative strength. All-grade reading proficiency is 38.6%, above the district's 35.4% but below the state's 48.6% — the only all-grade subject where the school outperforms its district. Sixth grade reading is the standout result: 53.6%, essentially at the state average of 53.4%, and the only reported 2025–2026 grade and subject score at or above the state mark. Seventh grade reading, by contrast, is 16.7%, far below the state's 43.5%. Math and science are the biggest concerns: all-grade math is 9.9% versus 18.1% district and 44.9% state, and all-grade science is 10.2% versus 19.2% district and 25.5% state. Every grade-level math result falls well below the state, from 4.0% in 5th grade to 20.8% in 8th grade; science is 12.0% in 5th grade and 8.3% in 8th grade.
Reading also improved the most year over year, from 30.61% in 2024–2025 to 38.6% in 2025–2026 (about 8 percentage points), while math rose 0.62 points and science 1.50 points. Rank improved from 0 stars and 10th percentile in 2024–2025 to 1 star and 23rd percentile in 2025–2026 — the best of the three reported years, but still bottom-quartile. The district ranks 325 of 458 schools, at the 29th percentile with 1 star. Parents should weigh these figures alongside the school's small size, since a few students changing schools can shift grade-level proficiency rates by several percentage points.
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