Summary:
ZIP code 56136 covers Hendricks, Minnesota, a small rural community served by two schools that share the same campus address at 200 E Lincoln St and both belong to the Hendricks Public School District: Mnvss, which serves grades 5–12, and Hendricks High School, which serves grades 7–12. Because the two schools overlap in grades 7–12 and share an address, their combined enrollment of 170 may not represent 170 unique students, so comparisons between them should be read with that caution in mind.
The two schools are similar in student need but differ in size and staffing. Free or reduced lunch is 48.65% at Mnvss with 111 students and a student/teacher ratio of 5.8, compared with 47.46% at Hendricks High School with 59 students and a ratio of 8.8. The Hendricks Public School District ranks 111 of 458 Minnesota districts — 76th percentile, 4 stars — but Hendricks High School's own rank fell from 93/472, 80th percentile, 4 stars in 2021–22 to 295/473, 38th percentile, 2 stars in 2025–26.
The most serious finding is dropout: Mnvss reports a 24.4% dropout rate and an 80.0%–44.4% range of graduation outcomes (44.4%), while Hendricks High School reports 20.0% dropout and 80.0% graduation, against a state graduation rate of 84.9% and dropout rate of 4.2%. The district dropout rate of 23.6% is more than five times the state rate. In 2025–26, Hendricks High School scored 25% Math, 32.3% Reading, and 27.3% Science; 8th-grade Science (25% vs 16.7%) and 8th-grade Reading (50%, equal to state) were bright spots. Mnvss's school-level test scores are suppressed by the state, so they are unknown rather than low.
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