Summary:
ZIP code 56378 covers Sauk Centre, Minnesota, where three public schools serve roughly 1,104 students in grades PK–12: Sauk Centre Elementary (PK–4, 368 students), Sauk Centre Middle (5–6, 139 students), and Sauk Centre Secondary (7–12, 597 students). All three belong to the Sauk Centre Public School District, which is ranked 286 of 458 districts in Minnesota — the 38th percentile — with a 2-star rating. That district-level rating appears on all three school records, so it describes the district as a whole rather than each school individually.
Comparing the schools, the secondary school has the strongest completion outcomes: a 94.5% graduation rate and 2.7% dropout rate, well ahead of the state's 84.9% and 4.2%. Yet its test proficiency sits below state levels, and its ranking slipped from 3 stars and the 56th percentile to 2 stars and the 41st percentile. The elementary school has the smallest classes, a student-teacher ratio of 10 versus 12.3 at the middle school and 16.4 at the secondary school, and it improved from 1 star to 2 stars while remaining at the 30th percentile. Free/reduced lunch rates are nearly identical at the elementary and middle schools (about 41%) and lower at the secondary school (31.66%).
Academically, reading is the clearest district-wide weakness: the district's 37.4% trails the state's 48.6%, with especially low results in 3rd grade reading (23.6% vs. 46.8% state) and 7th grade reading (15.5% vs. 43.5%). Science is also a persistent gap — district 16.3% vs. state 25.5% — and the secondary school's science results are lowest of all. Math is more uneven: the elementary school's all-grade math (45.7%) edges the state, and 8th and 11th grade math at the secondary school beat state averages, but the middle school's math is the weakest at 35.2%. Year over year, elementary reading improved and secondary science rose, while secondary math and middle reading declined.
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