Summary:
ZIP code 56093 is home to two high schools — both in the Waseca Public School District in Minnesota — serving a combined 620 students: Waseca Senior High (grades 9–12, 555 students) and Waseca Area Learning Center (grades 7–12, 65 students).
Waseca Senior High is the larger, traditional comprehensive high school, and science is its clearest bright spot: 38.5% proficiency in 2025–2026, well above the district's 22% and the state's 25.5%, and it was also above both in 2024–2025. Its graduation rate of 91.3% in 2024–2025 is above the district's 84.7% and the state's 84.9%, and it ranks 173 of 473 schools (63rd percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026. Math and reading are its relative weaknesses — 36.4% in math versus 44.9% state and 40.7% in reading versus 48.6% state in 2025–2026 — though both are close to district averages. Its free/reduced-lunch rate is 36.4%, and its student-teacher ratio is 15.7.
Waseca Area Learning Center reports much lower outcomes and serves a higher-need population. In 2025–2026, math and reading proficiency are both reported at 0% and science at 5.6%; its graduation rate is 39.1%, and it ranks 465 of 473 (2nd percentile, 0 stars), down from the 25th percentile in 2023–2024 and 8th in 2024–2025. Its free/reduced-lunch rate is 70.77%, roughly double the other school's, and its student-teacher ratio is lower at 11.4, which may reflect a different instructional or support model rather than a simple class-size advantage. Notably, both schools report a 4.3% dropout rate, close to the state's 4.2%, even though their graduation rates differ sharply. The Waseca Public School District overall ranks 270 of 458 (41st percentile, 2 stars), a single figure that masks how different these two schools' reported results are; families should compare the schools with their different grade spans and student populations in mind.
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