Summary:
ZIP code 56671 covers the Red Lake, Minnesota area and includes six schools serving pre-kindergarten through 12th grade: three elementary schools, one middle school, and two high schools, together enrolling about 1,474 students. Five schools belong to Red Lake Public School District, which accounts for roughly 92% of that enrollment; Endazhi-Nitaawiging is its own district. The area summary lists no alternative schools, yet Red Lake Alternative Learning appears in the school list and is typed as a high school. Economic need is high everywhere: every school reports free/reduced lunch above 71%, with an enrollment-weighted rate near 80.5%.
On reported 2025-2026 scores, Red Lake Elementary is the strongest local performer, with the ZIP's highest math and reading results at 7.5% and 15.5%, and it improved in all three subjects from the prior year. Red Lake Secondary reports 5.7% math, 11.1% reading, and the area's highest science score at 5.2%, plus the best rank percentile among Red Lake Public schools at 7. Red Lake Middle School has the lowest math and science, at 1.3% and 1.4%, with reading at 6.9%. Endazhi-Nitaawiging reports 2% math and 6% reading, with science suppressed, and is ranked last of 869 schools. All trail the state's 44.9% math, 48.6% reading, and 25.5% science; every ranked school here has 0 stars. A dash means the state suppressed a value for privacy and does not mean zero.
High school outcomes are the biggest concern: Red Lake Secondary reports a 23.6% graduation rate and 39.4% dropout rate, versus 84.9% and 4.2% statewide, while Red Lake Alternative Learning graduates 6.9% with a 27.5% dropout rate. Staffing differs sharply: Red Lake Early Childhood Center, which serves PK-K and has no MCA scores, has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 10.5 and the lowest free/reduced lunch rate at 71.53%, while Red Lake Alternative Learning is reported at 53.0, and Endazhi-Nitaawiging at 20.5 among non-alternative schools.
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