Summary:
ZIP code 56308 in Alexandria, Minnesota serves 3,691 students across six schools — three elementary, one middle, two high, and no alternative schools — with five of the six run by Alexandria Public School District, which enrolls about 96% of students, and Kalon Prep Academy operating as a separate charter high school.
Four schools stand out. Discovery Middle School is the highest-ranked in the ZIP at the 86th percentile with 4 stars, climbing from the 78th and 81st percentiles in prior years, with math at 51.3% and reading at 57.7%. Voyager Elementary reaches the 78th percentile (4 stars) with the ZIP's best reading score at 59.3% and 67.3% in math. Lincoln Elementary leads in math at 67.9%, roughly 22 points above the state's 44.9%, ranking 72nd percentile. Alexandria Area High School sits at the 80th percentile with a 97.5% graduation rate versus the state's 84.9% and a 0.9% dropout rate versus 4.2%. Two figures deserve context: its all-grade math of 38.4% understates performance, since 11th-grade math is 38.4% against the state's 35.3%; likewise Discovery's science of 19.9% is above the state's 8th-grade figure of 16.7%.
Two schools need attention. Woodland Elementary School is the lowest-ranked district school at the 42nd percentile with 2 stars; its reading proficiency of 43.1% falls below the state's 48.6%, despite having the lowest student-teacher ratio in the ZIP at 11.1 and the highest district free/reduced-lunch rate at 41.71%. Kalon Prep Academy is the outlier at the 8th percentile with 0 stars: 7.4% math, 10% reading, 7.4% science, a 76.0% graduation rate, and a 10.8% dropout rate — more than double the state's 4.2%. Overall, the ZIP spans a wide range, from the 80th–86th percentile down to the 8th.
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