Arena, MN schools
Arena’s public schools score well below Minnesota’s averages: 44% of students are proficient in reading against 52.5% statewide, and 95% of high schoolers graduate on time against 84.4%. Kids attend Appleton-Milan Elementary or Madison-Marietta-Nassau Elementary through grade 4, then Lac Qui Parle Valley Secondary.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Arena’s School Grade: B-
The public schools Arena’s kids attend trail 51% of Minnesota’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Minnesota’s state tests, each against the state average. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Minnesota only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Minnesota with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Arena kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well below the state in reading
95% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
The district serving Arena
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Arena
There’s no college within 30 miles of Arena. The closest is Minnesota West Community and Technical College in Granite Falls, MN, 38.6 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Arena. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.
We don’t have any schools located in Arena yet.