Summary:
ZIP code 56232 covers Dawson, Minnesota, and contains exactly one high school: Dawson-Boyd Secondary, a grades 7–12 school with 269 students in the Dawson-Boyd Public School District. Because there is only one school in the area, there are no in-ZIP peers to compare against, so the most useful comparisons are between this school, its district and the state of Minnesota. The school reports a 35.32% free/reduced-lunch rate and a 14.3 student-teacher ratio.
Completion outcomes and reading are the strongest parts of the profile. The graduation rate is 97.7%, well above the state's 84.9%, and the dropout rate is 2.2% against 4.2% statewide. All Grades reading proficiency is 55.9%, above the state's 48.6%, with 8th grade at 65.1% versus 50% statewide and 10th grade at 55.3% versus 42.5%. End-of-Course science is also strong at 41.3% versus the state's 35%. Scores improved broadly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: math rose from 15.04% to 26.3%, reading from 43.18% to 55.9%, and science from 9.64% to 24.7%. That improvement tracks with the school's rank rebound from 300 of 450 (33rd percentile, 2 stars) to 171 of 473 (64th percentile, 3 stars).
Math is the clear weakness. All Grades math proficiency is 26.3%, far below the state's 44.9% and the district's 51.1%, and 11th-grade math is 15.8% against 35.3% statewide. Eighth-grade science is also low at 7% versus 16.7% statewide, while All Grades science (24.7%) is close to the state's 25.5%. Note that the district's higher All Grades figures are not directly comparable, since the district includes elementary grades the secondary school does not serve; grade-level results for grades 7–12 match the school exactly. With only 269 students, year-to-year swings in scores and rankings can be large, so the district's 4-star, 77th-percentile rating reflects a broader set of grades than this school alone.
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