Summary:
ZIP code 55987 in Winona, Minnesota contains exactly one middle school: Winona Middle, located at 1570 Homer Rd and serving grades 5–8 with 665 students. It is part of the Winona Area Public School District. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP, there is no local peer comparison — the meaningful benchmarks are the district, the state, and the school's own results over time.
Winona Middle is clearly improving. Its state rank rose from 433 of 545 schools (21st percentile, 1 star) in 2023–2024 to 397 of 519 (24th percentile) in 2024–2025 and then to 287 of 546 (47th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026 — a 26-percentile-point gain over two years. Reading is the relative strength: all-grade reading proficiency was 45.8%, which is 3.8 points above the district (42.0%) and only 2.8 points below the state (48.6%). Math also improved year over year, from 27.9% to 32.2%, and reading gained 6.87 points. Science is the weakest area at 13.8%, below the district's 16.9% and the state's 25.5%, and it slipped 1.44 points from the prior year. Grade 8 science was just 10.9% versus 16.7% statewide, and grade 7 reading dropped to 34.0% — 9.5 points below the state's grade 7 average.
Math proficiency sits between 29.9% and 33.3% across grades 5–8, below state levels in every grade, while reading scores in grades 5 and 6 (52.8% and 52.0%) come closest to state averages. The school serves a high-need population: 44.51% of students were eligible for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, with a student-teacher ratio of 13.9. Overall, families can take encouragement from the school's steady improvement in rank, math, and reading, but science and grade 7 reading remain the clearest gaps to watch.
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