Schools in Zip Code 56072

ZIP code 56072 covers New Richland, Minnesota, and contains exactly one public school: NRHEG Secondary, a grades 6–12 building with 408 students in the NRHEG School District. Because this one school spans both middle and high school grades, families here have no other public option in the ZIP — there are no separate elementary, middle, or alternative campuses — so the school averages roughly 58 students per grade level.

The strongest story at NRHEG Secondary is completion: its graduation rate of 96.4% is 11.5 points above Minnesota's 84.9%, and its dropout rate of 1.7% is less than half the state's 4.2%. Those figures match the district exactly, meaning the building essentially is the district's outcome. Science is the one subject where the school outperforms its own district (18.1% vs. 16.4%), and high school results are closer to typical — 11th grade Math at 23.4% is the school's best math figure, and End-of-Course Science at 31% nearly matches the state's 35%.

The concern is proficiency, which trails the state badly: Math at 16.1% versus 44.9% statewide, Reading at 31% versus 48.6%, and Science at 18.1% versus 25.5%. The weakest results sit in grades 6–8, including 6th grade Math at 8.2% and 8th grade Science at 7.7%. All three subjects declined from 2024-25 to 2025-26 by more than the state did, and the school's rank slipped from the 48th to the 36th percentile, still holding 2 stars. Free/reduced lunch is 36.76% and the student-teacher ratio is 14.6 — neither extreme. With one school and small cohorts, year-to-year swings should be read cautiously.