Best Public Schools in Zip Code 56633

ZIP code 56633 covers Cass Lake, Minnesota, where one district — Cass Lake-Bena Public Schools — serves roughly 1,119 students across four schools: Cass Lake-Bena Elementary (PK–5, 450 students), Cass Lake-Bena Middle School (6–8, 312 students), Cass Lake-Bena Secondary (9–12, 263 students), and Cass Lake-Bena Area Learning Cntr., an alternative program serving grades 7–12 with 94 students. Poverty is high and nearly uniform — free/reduced lunch ranges from about 76% to 85% at every school — and classes are small, at roughly 10 to 12 students per teacher.

Comparing the schools, Cass Lake-Bena Elementary is the relative bright spot: it is the only school above the district average in all three subjects (Math 23.2%, Reading 27.5%, Science 8.6%) and holds the highest single figures in the data set, including 4th-grade Math at 31.1%. Cass Lake-Bena Middle School has the weakest academic profile — below the district average in every subject, 0 stars in all three years on record, and a 7th-grade Math proficiency of just 1.3%. Cass Lake-Bena Secondary is notable for reading only, at 26.7% (above the district average), but its Math is 2.5%, its graduation rate is 75.0%, and its dropout rate of 12.5% is about three times the state's 4.2%. The Area Learning Cntr. has the lowest graduation rate in the ZIP at 35.2%, yet a lower dropout rate (8.8%) than the comprehensive high school.

District-wide, proficiency trails Minnesota by about 31 points in math, 26 in reading, and 20 in science, and no school earns more than one star. Math declines steadily by grade level, science fell at every school that reported it year over year, while reading improved at three of the four schools. Note that many of the Area Learning Cntr.'s grade-level results are suppressed by the state for privacy — those are unknown, not zero.