Best High Schools in Zip Code 56187

Zip code 56187 in Worthington, MN includes four high schools—Worthington Senior High (grades 9–12) and three smaller grade 7–12 programs, Virtual Instruction by Excellence S, Learning Center, and Learning Center Night—all within Worthington Public School District. Total listed enrollment is 1,360, but it is highly uneven: Worthington Senior High enrolls 1,118, about 82.2% of the total, while the three smaller schools together enroll 242, about 17.8%. The three smaller schools share the same address and serve grades 7–12, so their all-grade test results include middle-school grades.

Worthington Senior High stands out by size but has low outcomes: dropout 22.6% vs district 19.0% and state 4.2%; graduation 66.2%; 2025–2026 all-grade math 9.3%, reading 27.4%, science 6.5%; rank percentile 13. Virtual Instruction by Excellence S has the strongest reading—63.6% in 2025–2026, 64.29% in 2024–2025, and 7th-grade reading 76.9%—but math 26.1%, science suppressed, graduation 27.2%, dropout 18.1%. Learning Center has the highest graduation 76.1% and lowest dropout 5.9%, but test scores are 0% math, 4.8% reading, 0% science and rank percentile 1; its FRL is 74.39% and student/teacher ratio 6.4. Learning Center Night has only enrollment 36, FRL 69.44%, and ratio 36.7; graduation, dropout, tests, and rank are not provided.

Across the group, the district is below the state in every core subject in both years, with the biggest gap in science: 9.8% district vs 25.5% state in 2025–2026. Student/teacher ratios vary dramatically, from 6.4 at Learning Center to 36.7 at Learning Center Night, 32.6 at Virtual Instruction by Excellence S, and 17.5 at Worthington Senior High. The main academic highlight is reading at Virtual Instruction by Excellence S; the main completion concerns are at Worthington Senior High (highest dropout) and Virtual Instruction by Excellence S (lowest graduation). Learning Center shows a sharp paradox: strong completion metrics but very low test proficiency. Learning Center Night cannot be fairly evaluated from this extract because missing values are unknown, not zero or weakness.