Summary:
ZIP code 55976 covers Stewartville, a small city in southeastern Minnesota near Rochester, and it is home to just one middle school: Stewartville Middle, which enrolls 480 students in grades 6–8 as part of the Stewartville Public School District. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP code, its results are the full picture for local families.
Reading is the school's strongest area. In 2025–2026, all grades combined reached 48.3% proficiency, essentially matching the state's 48.6%, and 6th graders (54% vs. 53.4%) and 8th graders (51.3% vs. 50%) scored above state averages. Math was more uneven: 7th grade (42.8%) beat the state's 40.3%, but 8th grade (29.7%) fell 12.6 percentage points below the state's 42.3%, leaving all-grade Math at 36.7% against 44.9% statewide. Science was the clearest weakness — 12.5% proficient across all grades versus 25.5% for the state and 28.4% for the district, with 8th grade Science at 12.5% compared with 16.7% statewide.
The district overall is rated more strongly than the school: 4 stars and 117th of 458 districts (74th percentile), while the school earned 3 stars and ranked 223rd of 546 middle schools (59th percentile) in 2025–2026. That percentile has drifted from 65 three years earlier to 59, even as Reading improved slightly (46.93% to 48.3%) while Math (39.87% to 36.7%) and Science (12.99% to 12.5%) slipped. For context, 23.54% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch and the student-teacher ratio was 16:1 in 2024–2025. In short, this is a solid 3-star school that performs near state norms in Reading but has real work to do in Math, and especially Science.
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