Summary:
ZIP code 56201 covers 11 schools in Willmar, Minnesota, serving students from elementary through high school plus alternative settings, with roughly 4,175 students enrolled. Ten of these schools belong to the Willmar Public School District, and one — DREAM Technical Academy — is part of Technical Academies of Minnesota. The largest schools are Willmar Senior High (1,205 students), Willmar Middle School (842), and Kennedy Elementary (672), while the smallest are alternative programs such as Lakeview School (11) and Prairie Lakes Education Center (19).
Among the standouts, Roosevelt Elementary posts the strongest elementary math results at 46.3% proficiency, above both the district (38.8%) and state (44.9%), and holds the highest elementary rank in the area at 35th percentile with 2 stars. Willmar Middle School is the top overall performer, ranking 56th percentile with 3 stars, with 7th and 8th grade math above state averages. Willmar Senior High graduates 88.4% of its students, above district and state rates, and Kennedy Elementary improved in all three tested subjects. By contrast, Willmar Area Learning Center and DREAM Technical Academy show very low proficiency and graduation rates alongside much higher dropout rates.
District-wide, proficiency trails the state in every tested subject — math 38.8% vs. 44.9%, reading 36.5% vs. 48.6%, and science 18.3% vs. 25.5% — with science a weakness at most campuses; Willmar Senior High is the exception at 24.8%. Poverty levels do not track neatly with results: Roosevelt and Willmar Middle serve high free/reduced-lunch populations yet outperform the district in math. Note that a dash (—) means the state suppressed a figure to protect student privacy, so it is unknown rather than zero; several small alternative schools have many suppressed values and cannot be compared on test scores.
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