Summary:
Zip code 56549 is home to five schools serving students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade across two districts — Hawley Public School District and Lake Agassiz Education Cooperative — with a combined enrollment of 1,089 students and no stand-alone middle school, since Hawley Secondary covers grades 7–12.
Hawley Public School District is the anchor here, enrolling 1,058 of the area's 1,089 students and ranking 19th of 458 Minnesota districts, at the 96th percentile with 5 stars. Hawley Elementary is the academic standout: in 2025–2026 it ranked 45 of 869 schools, earned 5 stars, and posted 76.1% math, 68.4% reading, and 43.4% science — well above the state's 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. It also has a relatively low free/reduced lunch rate of 16.93%. Hawley Secondary posted excellent outcomes — a 93.0% graduation rate and 0.0% dropout rate versus the state's 84.9% and 4.2% — and remains above the state in all three subjects (54.4% math, 58.5% reading, 30.5% science), though below its district and down from 98th percentile two years ago to 84th percentile this year.
Spring Prairie Elementary is a very different context: only 26 students and an 88.46% free/reduced lunch rate, with reading above the state at 53.8% but math below both state and district at 30.8%, and science suppressed. The two cooperative programs, Intensive Interagency Program (16 students) and Glacial Ridge Transitional Skills P (15 students), have all school-level test scores suppressed as —, meaning those figures are unknown rather than an indication of weakness.
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