Summary:
ZIP code 56017 covers Cleveland, Minnesota, and contains two public schools serving a combined 650 students: Cleveland Elementary, which serves grades PK–6 with 390 students, and Cleveland Secondary, which serves grades 7–12 with 260 students. Both belong to the Cleveland Public School District, which ranks 149 of 458 Minnesota districts, or the 67th percentile, with 3 stars. There is no standalone middle school, so the secondary building also houses the middle grades.
The two schools are heading in opposite directions in statewide rankings. Cleveland Elementary has slipped from the 75th to the 70th to the 60th percentile over three years, dropping from 4 stars to 3. Cleveland Secondary has climbed from the 35th to the 39th to the 65th percentile, rising from 2 stars to 3, narrowly edging the elementary school in the latest year. Cleveland Elementary's clearest strength is reading, where all-grades proficiency is 59.4%, above the district's 55.5% and the state's 48.6%, with especially strong results in grades 3 and 6. Cleveland Secondary stands out for completion: a 95.5% graduation rate against the state's 84.9%, and a 2.2% dropout rate roughly half the state's 4.2%.
Science is a shared weakness. In 2025–26, proficiency was 20.3% at the elementary school and 15.4% at the secondary school, versus 17.5% for the district and 25.5% statewide. Cleveland Elementary also has a sharp 5th-grade math concern at 13.6% against the state's 41.9%, and its all-grades math fell 9.7 points while science fell 21.7 points year over year. At Cleveland Secondary, 8th grade lags in every subject, including science at 4.8% versus 16.7% statewide, though secondary math improved by about 10 points. Contextually, the elementary school has a higher free/reduced lunch rate (23.33% vs. 16.92%) and a slightly lower student/teacher ratio (14.9 vs. 15.7).
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