Summary:
ZIP code 56467 in north-central Minnesota contains exactly one high school, Nevis Secondary, a grades 7–12 school with 279 students serving the Nevis Public School District. Because it is the only high school in the area, parents should judge it against the district, the state, and its own past performance rather than against nearby schools.
Its strongest results are in completion and math. The 2024–2025 graduation rate is 97.9%, matching the district and 13.0 percentage points above Minnesota's 84.9%, while the dropout rate is 2.0%, also matching the district and 2.2 points below the state's 4.2%. In 2025–2026, all-grade math proficiency is 55.5%, above the district's 54.9% and 10.6 points above the state's 44.9%; 11th-grade math (59.5% vs. 35.3%) and 8th-grade math (63.2% vs. 42.3%) are especially strong. All-grade science, at 30.2%, also beats the district (28.8%) and state (25.5%).
Reading is the clear concern. All-grade reading is 44.6%, below the district's 50.3% and the state's 48.6%, and 10th-grade reading is 36.2% against the state's 42.5%. Reading also fell 16.06 points year over year, far more than the district's 7.47-point and the state's 0.99-point declines, and science dropped 13.62 points, though it remains above state. Reflecting this, the school's rank moved from 37 of 450 (92nd percentile, 5 stars) in 2024–2025 to 169 of 473 (64th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026, close to its 147-of-480, 69th-percentile, 3-star result in 2023–2024. For context, 42.65% of students receive free or reduced lunch and the student/teacher ratio is 14.3, though no state or district comparators are provided.
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