Schools in Zip Code 56312

ZIP code 56312 (Belgrade, MN) is served by a single public school in this data set: Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa Sec., a building of 316 students serving grades 6–12 within the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa School District. Although it is classified as a "high" school (the area summary counts 0 elementary, 0 middle, 1 high, 0 alternative), its grade span means it also functions as the middle school, and its student-to-teacher ratio is 12.2 with 34.49% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch. No values in this file are suppressed, and none are reported as bounds or ranges.

The school's strongest results come in completion and early-grade reading. Its graduation rate is 94.6%, matching the district and running 9.7 percentage points above the state's 84.9%, while its dropout rate is 0.0% against a 4.2% state rate. Reading is essentially at state level overall (47.8% versus 48.6%) and actually beats the state in the middle grades — 7th grade at 56.1% (12.6 points above state) and 6th grade at 57.8% (4.4 points above). Because every grade 6–12 row shows identical school and district figures, the district's higher math and science averages come from lower-grade buildings outside this ZIP code file, not from a stronger version of this school.

The weaknesses are concentrated rather than uniform. Science is the deepest gap: 9.3% overall against 25.5% statewide, down 7.6 points in a year, with 8th-grade science at 2.7% — the lowest figure in the data. Math falls well below state at the secondary level, including 11th grade at 8.3% (versus 35.3%) and 8th grade at 13.5% (versus 42.3%). Reading declines steadily from 57.8% in 6th grade to 31.6% in 10th, and the school's state rank moved from 45th to 50th to 20th percentile across three cycles. In short: strong completion outcomes and competitive grades 6–7 reading, alongside real weakness in upper-grade reading, secondary math, and science.