Summary:
ZIP code 55992 — the Zumbrota area — is served by a single middle school, Zumbrota-Mazeppa Middle School, which enrolls 194 students in grades 7 and 8 (about 97 per grade) as part of the Zumbrota-Mazeppa School District. About 22.16% of students receive free or reduced-price lunch, a relatively low share for a Minnesota public school, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.5.
The school's core results are strong. In 2025-26, math proficiency at all grades was 57.1% versus the state's 44.9%, and reading was 54% versus 48.6%. Seventh grade drives that performance: 7th-grade math reached 61.5% against a state figure of 40.3%, and 7th-grade reading was 57.7% versus 43.5%. The school has ranked in the 83rd-86th percentile of Minnesota middle schools for three straight years and holds a 4-star rating, placing it in roughly the top 17% of 546 middle schools. Its district ranks 36th of 458 districts (92nd percentile, 5 stars), suggesting the elementary and high school grades are performing even higher.
Two areas are worth watching. Science is the clear weak spot: proficiency was 14.1%, below the state's 25.5% and far below the district's 35.5%, and it dropped from 22.08% the year before — a much steeper decline than the state's. Eighth-grade reading, at 50.6% versus the state's 50.0%, sits essentially at the state average and is the least competitive of the school's core results; 8th-grade math (53.0%) also trails 7th-grade math by 8.5 points. Parents should note that because this school is the district's only provider of grades 7-8, the district's higher overall scores come from its other grade levels, not from this school.
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