Best High Schools in Zip Code 56671

ZIP code 56671 is home to two high schools — Red Lake Secondary and Red Lake Alternative Learning — both in the Red Lake Public School District, both serving grades 9–12 at the same address on Hwy 1 E in Redlake, Minnesota, and together enrolling 430 students.

Red Lake Secondary is the larger school with 377 students, about 88% of the area's high schoolers, while Red Lake Alternative Learning enrolls 53. On graduation, Red Lake Secondary's 23.6% rate is above the district's 19.0% and well above the alternative school's 6.9%, but all three sit far below Minnesota's 84.9%. Dropout rates run in the opposite direction: 39.4% at Red Lake Secondary, 27.5% at Red Lake Alternative Learning, and 36.1% district-wide, against a state rate of 4.2%. Test proficiency follows the same pattern. Red Lake Secondary reported 5.7% in math, 11.1% in reading, and 5.2% in science for 2025–2026, all far under state levels. Red Lake Alternative Learning's 2025–2026 scores are suppressed by the state, and its 2024–2025 math proficiency was 0%.

Both schools serve largely low-income families, with free/reduced lunch at 81.96% at Red Lake Secondary and 73.58% at the alternative school. Rankings confirm the trend: Red Lake Secondary placed in the bottom 4th–7th percentile of Minnesota high schools in each of the last three listed years, and Red Lake Alternative Learning's only rank, from 2016–2017, put it in the 1st percentile. Parents should know that the alternative school's small enrollment, reported 53-to-1 student-teacher ratio, and suppressed scores make its current performance hard to assess fully. Overall, both schools trail state averages by wide margins.