Summary:
ZIP code 56623 covers Baudette, Minnesota, and contains just one listed high school: Lake Of The Woods Secondary, part of the Lake Of The Woods School District. It serves grades 6–12 with 228 students, a student-teacher ratio of 15.6, and about one-third of students (33.33%) eligible for free or reduced lunch. Because it is the only high school in the ZIP, there are no local peers to compare it with, so the useful benchmarks are the district, the state, and the school's own prior year.
The school's clearest strengths are in completion and in recent improvement. Its graduation rate is 89.4%, above Minnesota's 84.9% and matching its district. Math proficiency rose from 25.38% in 2024–2025 to 32.3% in 2025–2026, and science rose from 15% to 18.2%. Science is also the school's best subject relative to its district (18.2% versus 14.1%), and 8th-grade science (16.1%) is essentially at the state level (16.7%). The strongest grade-level reading result is 6th grade at 48.6%, close to the state's 53.4%.
Challenges remain. The dropout rate is 7.8% versus the state's 4.2%, and all-grade proficiency trails Minnesota in math (32.3% vs. 44.9%), reading (34.4% vs. 48.6%), and science (18.2% vs. 25.5%). Reading fell from 41.27% to 34.4% year over year and now sits below the district. Grade-level reading is especially low in 10th grade (20.8%) and 7th grade (25%), against state rates of 42.5% and 43.5%. The school ranks in the bottom third of Minnesota schools with a 1-star rating, though its percentile improved from 17 to 29. With only 228 students across grades 6–12, individual grade results rest on small groups and can swing sharply from year to year.
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