Summary:
ZIP code 56110 contains a single middle school, Adrian Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 139 students in Adrian, Minnesota, as part of the Adrian Public School District, which is ranked 159th of 458 in Minnesota (65th percentile, 3 stars). Because there is only one middle school here, the useful comparisons are Adrian Middle against its district, against state averages, and against its own prior years.
The school's strongest results are in 8th grade math, where 71.4% of students are proficient — about 29 percentage points above the state's 42.3% and equal to the district. 8th grade reading is also above state (57.1% vs. 50.0%), and 7th grade math beats the state figure (45.8% vs. 40.3%). All-grade math improved from 43.48% in 2024–2025 to 49.2% in 2025–2026, moving above the state's 44.9%, and science rose from 17.02% to 19.4%. The school's ranking also remains above average: 68th percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026, slightly above the district's 65th percentile, after a stronger 2024–2025 at 71st percentile and 4 stars.
Reading is the main area to watch. All-grade reading declined from 50.37% to 44.4%, dropping below the state's 48.6%. The weakness is concentrated in the lower grades: 6th grade reading is 44.2% vs. the state's 53.4%, 7th grade reading is 35.4% vs. 43.5%, and 6th grade math is 34.9% vs. 39.5%. On the all-grade science comparison, 19.4% trails the district's 26.8% and the state's 25.5%; however, science is tested only in 8th grade, where Adrian Middle's 19.4% is above the state's 8th grade figure of 16.7%. With 139 students, 38.13% qualifying for free/reduced lunch and a student-teacher ratio of 16.5, year-to-year swings should be read with caution.
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