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Best High Schools in Zip Code 56143

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At a glance

Schools

332

Students

Districts

Top rankedJackson County Central Senior High221^st of 473 Minnesota high schools

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Summary:

ZIP code 56143 is home to just one high school: Jackson County Central Senior High, a grades 9–12 campus in Jackson, Minnesota, serving 332 students as part of the Jackson County Central School District. Because it is the district's only high school, its results are the district's results, and parents can track performance over time to see how the school is doing. The student-teacher ratio was 15.9, and 35.24% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch.

Completion is the school's strongest story. In 2024–2025, the graduation rate was 94.1%, well above the state's 84.9%, and the dropout rate was just 2.3% compared with 4.2% statewide. Reading is the clearest academic bright spot: proficiency was above the state in both 2024–2025 (55.41% vs. 49.59%) and 2025–2026 (50.7% vs. 48.6%), and the 10th-grade reading score of 50.7% ran 8.2 points ahead of the state. The 2024–2025 school year was a high point overall, with a 4-star rating and a 70th-percentile ranking.

Math and science are the areas to watch. Math proficiency fell from 37.31% to 34.3% and sat below the state in both years (44.9% in 2025–2026). Science dropped sharply, from 34.72% — then 8.57 points above the state — to 19.1%, which is 6.4 points below the state average and 15.9 points below the state's End of Course science score. Reading and science both declined year over year, and in 2025–2026 the school slipped to 3 stars and the 53rd percentile (221st of 473). Parents should watch science first, then math, while taking confidence from the strong graduation and reading results.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				MCA-IV Reading (2026)		MCA-IV Science (2026)		MCA-III Math (2026)		Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients (2025)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	MCA-IV Reading 10th Grade	MCA-IV Reading All Grades	MCA-IV Science End of Course	MCA-IV Science All Grades	MCA-III Math 11th Grade	MCA-III Math All Grades	Total
Jackson County Central Credit Recovery	Public	9-12	1128 North Highway	Jackson	56143	Jackson County	Region 6 and 8-SW/Wc Service Coop	No	No	No	No	(507) 847-5310	0				0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()	0 ()								(n/a)
Jackson County Central Senior High	Public	9-12	1128 N Hwy	Jackson	56143	Jackson County	Jackson County Central School District	No	No	No	No	(507) 847-5310	332	21	15.9	35.2%	282 (84.9%)	7 (2.1%)	26 (7.8%)	3 (0.9%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	14 (4.2%)	56.1	221^st of 473 public high schools	53.3%		70.5	133^rd of 450 public high schools	70.4%	88	50.7	50.7	19.1	19.1	34.3	34.3	$12,496

Cities Near Zip Code 56143

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Jackson	0.17 mi	3	122^nd
Lakefield	9.45 mi	2	201^st
Sherburn	13.32 mi	3	323^rd
Trimont	16.93 mi	1	305^th
Windom	17.87 mi	11	264^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Minnesota Department of Education.

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