Best High Schools in Zip Code 56101

ZIP code 56101 covers Windom, Minnesota, and it is home to two high schools serving grades 9–12: Windom Senior High, a comprehensive school with 327 students in the Windom Public School District, and SWWC Alternative Learning Center - Windom, a 41-student alternative learning center in the Region 6 and 8-SW/Wc Service Coop.

Windom Senior High enrolls about 89% of the ZIP's high-school students. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate of 86.3% is above the state's 84.9%, though its dropout rate of 7.3% is above the state's 4.2%. Its 2025–2026 ranking fell to 266 of 473 schools, 44th percentile with 2 stars, down from 128 of 450, 72nd percentile with 4 stars the prior year. Test results followed: Reading dropped from 54.05% to 30.3%, and Science from 39.47% to 26.3%, while Math slipped from 40.28% to 38.4%. Reading is now the clearest weakness — 30.3% is below the district's 39.2% and 12.2 points below the state's 10th-grade rate of 42.5%. Math looks better against the matching grade: 38.4% in 11th grade versus the state's 35.3%. Science, 26.3% end of course, is below the state's 35.0% but slightly above the state all-grades rate of 25.5%.

SWWC Alternative Learning Center - Windom is much smaller and higher-need, with 63.41% free/reduced lunch versus 46.79% at Windom, and a similar student-teacher ratio of 13.6 versus 14.1. It ranks at or near the bottom of state listings and reports 0% proficiency in all listed 2025–2026 subjects and in 2024–2025 Math; its 2024–2025 Science score is suppressed by the state and should not be read as zero. Its graduation rate of 75.0% is below the state's 84.9%, but its dropout rate of 6.2% is above the state's 4.2% yet lower than Windom's 7.3%. Because it is an alternative setting with only 41 students, its academic results are best compared cautiously with a comprehensive high school.