Summary:
Zip code 56623 covers Baudette, Minnesota, and contains two public schools — Lake Of The Woods Elementary serving grades PK–5 with 234 students and Lake Of The Woods Secondary serving grades 6–12 with 228 students — both part of the Lake Of The Woods School District, together enrolling about 462 students. The district ranks 330th of 458 in Minnesota, at the 28th percentile with 1 star, and both schools are rated 1 star for 2025–2026.
The two schools are moving in opposite directions. The elementary school's rank percentile slipped from 30% in 2023–2024 to 22% in 2024–2025 and 20% in 2025–2026, dropping from 2 stars to 1 star. Its math fell from 34.04% to 29.3% and science from 15.15% to 4.3%, while reading edged up from 35.11% to 37.4%. The secondary school improved from the 17th to the 29th percentile, with math rising from 25.38% to 32.3% and science from 15.0% to 18.2%, though reading dropped from 41.27% to 34.4%. One striking split: the elementary school's 5th grade reading is 52.2%, close to the state's 54.5%, but 5th grade math and science are both 4.3%.
Neither school is above the state in all-grade proficiency. Elementary science is 4.3% versus the state's 25.5%, a 21.2-point gap, and secondary science is 18.2%. The brightest spots are the secondary school's 89.4% graduation rate, above the state's 84.9%, and its 8th grade science at 16.1%, just 0.6 points below the state's 16.7%. Concerns include the secondary school's 7.8% dropout rate versus the state's 4.2%, 10th grade reading at 20.8%, and elementary 5th grade math at 4.3%. Enrollment and free/reduced lunch are similar at both schools (about 33–35%), but the secondary school's student-teacher ratio is higher, 15.6 versus 13.5.
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