Summary:
ZIP code 56303 is served by a single public high school, Apollo Senior High, which enrolls 1,264 students in grades 9–12 and belongs to the St. Cloud Public School District in Minnesota. Because it is the only high school in this ZIP code, families here have one public high school option in the data, and the most useful comparisons are between Apollo and its own district and the state as a whole.
Apollo carries a 1-star rating and has ranked in the bottom quartile of Minnesota high schools for three straight years — 20th percentile in 2023–24, 18th percentile in 2024–25, and 23rd percentile in 2025–26 — so there is slight recent improvement, but the school remains in the bottom quarter statewide. Test proficiency is the clearest concern. In 2025–26, 15.4% of students were proficient in math, versus 24.9% in the district and 44.9% statewide; reading proficiency was 28.2%, versus 31.0% in the district and 48.6% statewide. Science was Apollo's relative bright spot within the district: 18.7% proficient against the district's 14.8%, though still below the state's 25.5%. Proficiency declined in all three subjects from 2024–25 to 2025–26, with science falling the most, about 3.1 percentage points.
Apollo's graduation rate of 71.0% is above the district's 67.3% but below the state's 84.9%, and its dropout rate of 7.6% is lower than the district's 8.5% but higher than the state's 4.2%. About 61.79% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is 16.6. The district itself also ranks in the bottom quarter of Minnesota districts at 363 of 458, which is important context for families comparing Apollo with schools elsewhere in the state.
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