Summary:
ZIP code 56701 covers Thief River Falls, Minnesota, where two high schools serve grades 9–12: Lincoln Senior High and Northwest Area Learning Center. Both belong to the Thief River Falls School District, which places at 241 out of 458 Minnesota districts — the 47th percentile, with 2 stars. The two schools are very different in size: Lincoln enrolls 521 students, while Northwest enrolls just 23, so their percentages should be read with that difference in mind.
Lincoln Senior High is the larger comprehensive high school and posts the stronger overall results. Its graduation rate is 95.3%, above the district's 94.5% and the state's 84.9%, and its dropout rate of 3.1% is below the state's 4.2% though slightly above the district's 2.7%. Science is a bright spot: 32.8% proficiency across all grades, above both district (21.3%) and state (25.5%), and above the district in End-of-Course Science while just below the state. Math and reading are weaker — all-grades math is 28.8% (8.2 points below district, 16.1 below state) and all-grades reading is 37.4% (6.4 below district, 11.2 below state). Its rank has climbed from the 34th percentile to the 49th percentile over three years, still at 2 stars.
Northwest Area Learning Center serves a markedly different population, with a free/reduced-lunch rate of 86.96% versus Lincoln's 32.63%. Its dropout rate is 0.0% and its graduation rate is 88.8% — above the state but below the district. Reported math proficiency is 0%, and science figures are suppressed by the state, meaning science performance is simply unknown rather than poor; no reading results are provided. Its only rank history is from 2011–2013. With only 23 students, these numbers can swing widely, so families should interpret them cautiously.
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