Summary:
ZIP code 56579 has only one high school, Rothsay Secondary, serving grades 7–12 in Rothsay, Minnesota, within the Rothsay Public School District. With 140 students and a 25.71% free/reduced-price lunch rate in 2024–2025, it is a small, single-school profile rather than a multi-school comparison. The most useful comparisons are against the district, Minnesota statewide averages, and the school’s own prior years.
The school’s strongest results are completion outcomes: its 2024–2025 graduation rate was 95.6% versus 84.9% statewide, and its dropout rate was 0.0% versus 4.2% statewide. Its rank also improved from 2 stars in 2023–2024 to 3 stars in 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, though it slipped slightly from 204th to 218th while staying near the 54th–55th percentile. Math is uneven by grade: 8th grade was 52.4% proficient versus 42.3% statewide and 11th grade was 45.8% versus 35.3% statewide, but 7th grade math was 22.2% versus 40.3%. Reading was 39.7% all-grades versus 48.6% statewide, though 10th grade was 42.1% versus 42.5%. Science is the clearest weakness: 15.0% all-grades versus 25.5% statewide, with End-of-Course science at 15.8% versus 35.0%.
All-grades math and reading declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026—math fell from 49.3% to 41.3%, and reading fell from 45.71% to 39.7%—while science stayed low at 15.22% to 15.0%. At the all-grades level, the school also trailed its district in math (41.3% vs. 50.0%), reading (39.7% vs. 48.4%), and science (15.0% vs. 16.4%). Because grade-level percentages are based on small cohorts, year-to-year swings can be volatile, but the repeated science and 7th grade weaknesses stand out. For parents, the takeaway is a school with excellent graduation and dropout outcomes and some strong math grades, but clear academic priorities in science and early middle-school math and reading.
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