Summary:
ZIP code 56320 (Cold Spring, MN) is home to three high schools — Rocori Senior High (grades 9–12), Rocori Online Learning Site (grades 6–12), and Rocori Alternative Learning Center (grades 7–12) — all part of the Rocori Public School District, which is rated 165th of 458 districts in Minnesota (64th percentile, 3 stars). Together they enroll 923 students, but the enrollment is heavily concentrated: Rocori Senior High serves 824 students, or about 89.3% of the total, while Online serves 72 and Alternative serves 27.
Outcomes differ sharply across the three. Rocori Senior High graduates 92.2% of students with a 3.8% dropout rate, both better than the district (88.1% and 5.3%) and state (84.9% and 4.2%). Rocori Online graduates 77.7% with a 14.8% dropout rate — roughly 3.5 times the state rate — and the highest student-teacher ratio at 19.1, compared with 15.1 at Senior High. Rocori Alternative has a 36.3% graduation rate and a 9.0% dropout rate, and the highest free/reduced lunch share at 48.15%, versus 36.11% at Online and 24.51% at Senior High. Where test data is shown as suppressed, the state withheld it for privacy; it should not be read as zero or as failure.
Academically, Rocori Senior High's clearest strength is science: 40.2% proficiency in 2025–2026 versus district 24.7% and state 25.5%, and 41.9% in 2024–2025. Math is more nuanced — its all-grade rate of 35.8% trails the district's 48.8%, but 11th-grade math (35.8%) is essentially even with the state (35.3%) and above the district's 11th-grade rate (33.2%), since the district average includes stronger middle-school results. Reading fell from 55.56% to 38.1%, but the exam changed from MCA-III to MCA-IV, so the years are not directly comparable. Rocori Online has all school-level proficiency values suppressed, and Rocori Alternative has only math reported, at 0%.
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