Best Public Schools in Zip Code 56187

ZIP code 56187 is Worthington, Minnesota, where eight schools serving grades K–12 enroll a combined 3,937 students in the Worthington Public School District: three elementary schools, one middle school, and four high schools. Enrollment is heavily concentrated in the traditional schools — Worthington Senior High alone has 1,118 students, about 28% of the total — while the three smaller high schools together enroll only 242. The district overall ranks 372 of 458 in Minnesota, at the 19th percentile with 1 star, and that district-level rating applies to every school listed here.

Reading is where the brightest spots appear. Virtual Instruction by Excellence S posts the highest reported reading proficiency in the area at 63.6%, and Virtual Instruction by Excellence E follows at 52.8% — both above the state's 48.6%, while the district sits at 33.8%. Worthington Middle is the clearest improving traditional school, climbing from the 24th to the 37th percentile over three years with 2 stars, and its math (34.3%) and reading (35.9%) beat district averages. Learning Center has the best high school completion numbers — a 76.1% graduation rate and 5.9% dropout rate, versus the district's 19.0% — despite near-zero reported test proficiency. In contrast, Worthington Senior High reports 9.3% math and 6.5% science proficiency and a 22.6% dropout rate, more than five times the state's 4.2%.

Science is the area's weakest subject: among reporting schools, none reaches the state's 25.5%, and the highest reported score is Intermediate School at 16.5%. Six of the eight schools have free/reduced-lunch rates above 60%, concentrated in traditional schools (Prairie Elementary at 73.19%, Learning Center at 74.39%), while the virtual schools are lower (Virtual Instruction by Excellence E at 37.45%). Student/teacher ratios vary widely — from 11.8 at Prairie Elementary to 49.8 at Virtual Instruction by Excellence E — and likely reflect different instructional models. Note that suppressed values (shown as —) are unknown, not zero: Prairie Elementary and Learning Center Night have no current test data, and virtual school science is suppressed.