Summary:
ZIP code 56671 is home to exactly one middle school — Red Lake Middle School — which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 268 students, so families in this rural Redlake, MN area have a single public middle-school option, run by the Red Lake Public School District.
That school has ranked at the 1st percentile of Minnesota middle schools in each of the last three reported years, with a 0-star rating: 541st of 546 in 2025–2026, 516th of 519 in 2024–2025, and 537th of 545 in 2023–2024. Proficiency is far below state levels. In 2025–2026, 1.3% of students were proficient in math, 6.9% in reading, and 1.4% in science, compared with 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5% statewide. The school also trails its own district (5.1% math, 11.4% reading, 3.7% science) in all three subjects. Economic need is high, with 83.21% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio is 18.9.
Grade-level results show a few relative strengths: 8th grade reading is the brightest spot at 13.2% proficient — still 36.8 percentage points below the state — and 8th grade science (1.4% vs. 1.1%) and 7th grade reading (4% vs. 3.2%) edge out district figures. The most urgent concern is 8th grade math, where 0% of students were proficient, versus 2% in the district and 42.3% statewide. Year over year, reading slipped from 9.32% to 6.9% while the district improved, and math and science were essentially flat. Since this is the only middle school in the ZIP code, no within-area comparison is possible; no test scores in this record were suppressed, but the data includes no demographic breakdowns.
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