Summary:
ZIP code 56634 in Minnesota has two schools in the Clearbrook-Gonvick School District—Clearbrook-Gonvick Elementary, serving grades PK–6, and Clearbrook-Gonvick Secondary, serving grades 7–12—with a combined enrollment of 460 students. For parents comparing the two, the elementary school is the stronger test-score performer: in 2025–2026 it scored above the district in math (33.8% vs. 25.8%), reading (42.9% vs. 37.6%), and science (18.8% vs. 16.5%). The secondary school scored below the district in all three subjects, with math at 15.0%, reading at 30.8%, and science at 15.3%. The elementary school’s best relative result came in 2024–2025 reading, when it reached 54.41%, above the state’s 49.59%.
The secondary school’s clearest bright spot is its 2024–2025 graduation rate of 90.6%, above the state’s 84.9%, but its dropout rate of 9.3% was more than double the state’s 4.2%. Both schools lost rank ground in 2025–2026: the elementary school fell from the 52nd percentile in 2024–2025 to the 31st percentile, and the secondary school fell from the 61st percentile to the 42nd percentile. The district overall is rated 1 star and sits at the 26th percentile, while both schools show 2 stars in 2025–2026. The elementary school also has a lower student-teacher ratio, 10.7, compared with 15.2 at the secondary school, and both have free/reduced lunch rates above 50%.
The biggest red flags are secondary math, science across both schools, and the elementary math decline by grade level. Secondary all-grade math was 15.0% in 2025–2026, compared with 44.9% statewide, and grade-level math was especially low in 7th grade (11.4%) and 8th grade (11.8%). Science was weak at both schools: 18.8% at the elementary school and 15.3% at the secondary school, both below the state’s 25.5%. Elementary math also drops sharply by grade, from 55.3% in 3rd grade to 18.5% in 6th grade, while reading is more stable. The main bright spots are elementary reading and the secondary graduation rate.
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