Summary:
ZIP code 56072 in New Richland, Minnesota, is served by a single public high school: NRHEG Secondary, a combined secondary school serving grades 6–12 with 408 students in the NRHEG School District.
Because there is only one school here, the most useful comparison is how NRHEG Secondary stacks up against its district and the state. Its strongest results are in completion: the graduation rate was 96.4% in 2024–25, well above Minnesota's 84.9%, and the dropout rate was 1.7%, less than half the state rate of 4.2%. Science is another relative bright spot — the school beat its district in science in both reported years (18.1% vs. 16.4% in 2025–26 and 21.35% vs. 18.79% in 2024–25), and End-of-Course Science at 31% came within 4 points of the state's 35%. Reading also tends to be stronger than math, with 6th-grade reading at 34.9% and 8th-grade reading at 33.3% — the highest grade-level results in 2025–26.
The clearest academic challenge is math. All-grade math proficiency was 16.1% in 2025–26 — exactly half the district's 32.2% and far below the state's 44.9% — down from 25.0% the prior year. Grade-level math was low across the board, with 6th grade at 8.2% and 8th grade at 13.5%. Science was uneven: 8th-grade science was just 7.7% against 16.7% statewide, even as end-of-course science held close to state. In rankings, the school improved from 1 star and the 29th percentile in 2023–24 to 2 stars and the 48th percentile in 2024–25, then slipped to the 36th percentile in 2025–26 while staying at 2 stars. For context, 36.76% of students qualified for free/reduced lunch and the student-teacher ratio was 14.6.
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