Schools in Zip Code 56243

ZIP code 56243 covers Grove City, Minnesota, and is home to two schools serving 524 students in the A.C.G.C. Public School District: A.C.G.C. Secondary, a high school for grades 7–12 with 390 students, and Acgc Elementary Grades 5 And 6, a middle school for grades 5–6 with 134 students. Both share the same campus on Minnesota Highway 4, and both serve nearly identical free/reduced lunch populations (43.08% and 43.28%). The district is ranked 145 of 458 in Minnesota — 68th percentile, 3 stars. Notably, the area has no elementary school listed, so younger students may be served outside this ZIP.

A.C.G.C. Secondary's standout strength is its graduation rate of 95.4%, which is 10.5 percentage points above the state's 84.9%; its dropout rate of 4.5% is slightly above the state's 4.2% but still low. Science results are also strong: 33.0% across all grades vs. the state's 25.5%, 47.9% at End of Course vs. 35.0%, and 21.9% in 8th grade vs. 16.7%. Its rank rebounded to 121 of 473 (74th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026 from 58th percentile and 3 stars the year before, though it remains below its 2023–2024 mark of 81st percentile. Acgc Elementary Grades 5 And 6 stands out for its student-teacher ratio of 9.0, far smaller than the secondary school's 14.8, and for 6th grade math at 42.0% vs. the state's 39.5%.

Both schools declined sharply in math from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 — A.C.G.C. Secondary fell from 49.16% to 35.4%, and Acgc Elementary Grades 5 And 6 from 46.62% to 31.8%, moving both from above to below the state average. Reading is a relative weakness at both, with 39.1% and 43.4% respectively, against the state's 48.6%. Science flipped between the two schools year over year: Acgc Elementary was above state in 2024–2025 but below in 2025–2026, while the reverse happened at the secondary school. The largest grade-level gaps are Acgc Elementary's 5th grade math (20.0% vs. 41.9%), its 6th grade reading (39.1% vs. 53.4%), and A.C.G.C. Secondary's 7th grade reading (30.0% vs. 43.5%).