Summary:
ZIP code 56461 covers Laporte, Minnesota, a small rural community served by three public schools that all sit at the same PK–12 campus on Main Street West and all belong to the Laporte Public School District: Laporte Elementary (PK–5, 146 students), Laporte Middle School (6–8, 80 students), and Laporte Secondary (9–12, 106 students), totaling 332 students.
Laporte Secondary is the clear bright spot, ranking 235th of 473 (50th percentile, 3 stars) and climbing 19 percentile points over three years. It graduates 95.4% of students versus 84.9% statewide, posts a 0.0% dropout rate against the state's 4.2%, and is the only school here beating the state in science (37% vs. 25.5%). Laporte Middle School is the opposite story: 404th of 546 (26th percentile, 1 star) in all three years, with science at 4% and math at 22.7% against a state figure of 44.9%. Laporte Elementary splits the difference — 4th grade math (66.7%) and 3rd grade math (61.1%) beat the state, while 3rd grade reading (22.2% vs. 46.8%) and 5th grade math (25% vs. 41.9%) fall well short.
Reading is the shared weakness: every school-level reading score sits below the state mark, though the gap narrows from elementary (−11.7 points) to secondary (−7.9). Elementary is the strongest upward mover, gaining 12.1 points in math and 8.2 in reading year over year. Because grades hold roughly 20–27 students, single students can shift results by about 4 percentage points, so treat these figures as directional. The district's 304th-of-458 rating blends a strong high school, an average elementary, and a struggling middle school into one label that fits none of them exactly.
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