Summary:
ZIP code 56201 covers Willmar, Minnesota, and contains three high schools — Willmar Senior High, Willmar Area Learning Center, and DREAM Technical Academy — serving grades 9–12, with one charter spanning grades 7–12, and a combined enrollment of about 1,368 students.
Willmar Senior High is by far the largest and posts the strongest outcomes in this ZIP, enrolling 1,205 students, or roughly 88% of the area's high schoolers. Its graduation rate is 88.4%, above the Willmar Public School District's 82.4% and Minnesota's 84.9%, and its dropout rate of 7.5% is lower than the district's 9.6%. It also has the highest reported proficiency of the three: 30.2% in math, 31.3% in reading, and 24.8% in science, with science above the district's 18.3% and nearly matching the state's 25.5%. Its rank improved from the 32nd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 40th percentile in 2025–2026, holding 2 stars.
The two smaller schools serve higher-need populations and post much lower results. Willmar Area Learning Center, with 91 students, has an 83.52% free/reduced-lunch rate, a 51.8% graduation rate, a 20.3% dropout rate, and 4.3% math proficiency, while its reading result is suppressed. DREAM Technical Academy, with 72 students in Technical Academies of Minnesota, has an 80.56% free/reduced-lunch rate, a 70.5% graduation rate, an 11.7% dropout rate, 4.8% math, 20% reading, and 0% science, and its district ranks in the 3rd percentile. Math is a shared weakness: even the top school's 30.2% trails the state's 44.9% by close to 15 points, and the other two sit near 4–5%. Because both smaller schools are tiny and several results are suppressed, treat those figures as unknown rather than zero, and read year-to-year changes cautiously.
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