Summary:
ZIP code 56101 contains exactly one middle school — Windom Middle in Windom, Minnesota — which serves grades 5 through 8, enrolls 359 students, and belongs to the Windom Public School District. Since it is the only middle school in the area, there are no local peer schools to compare it against, so the meaningful benchmarks are the district and the state.
Reading is the school's relative bright spot: all-grade reading proficiency is 42.0%, above the district average of 39.2% but below the state average of 48.6%. Its highest score anywhere is 5th-grade reading at 47.9%. Math, by contrast, is persistently weak at 23.9% across all grades — 21.0 points below the state — and every grade level trails the state by at least 14.5 points, with 6th and 7th grades lowest at 20.8% and 21.0%. Science is the most severe weakness at 12.6% overall, 12.9 points below the state, and just 6.2% in 8th grade against 16.7% statewide. Overall, the school ranks 384 of 546 for 2025–2026, at the 30th percentile with 2 stars, while the district ranks 301 of 458, at the 34th percentile.
Year over year, the school gained ground on its own district in all three subjects — math from -12.84 to -9.8, reading from -0.86 to +2.8, and science from -6.77 to -3.9 — though reading and science slipped slightly against the state. A concern for parents is that reading proficiency fades as students move up: it drops 12.8 points from 5th grade (47.9%) to 8th grade (35.1%), while the state drops only 4.5 points over that span. Rankings have stayed in the 27th–31st percentile with 1–2 stars across three years, showing no clear upward trend. About half of students (49.58%) qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 14.1.
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