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Home Brook, MN schools

Home Brook’s public schools score below Minnesota’s averages: 51% of students are proficient in reading against 52.5% statewide, and 92% of high schoolers graduate on time against 84.4%. Kids attend PILLAGER ELEMENTARY or PINE RIVER-BACKUS ELEMENTARY through grade 6, then Pillager Middle School or PINE RIVER-BACKUS HIGH SCHOOL and PINE RIVER-BACKUS HIGH SCHOOL or Pillager Senior High School.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

B-School Grade

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Home Brook’s School Grade: B-

The public schools Home Brook’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 55% of Minnesota’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

B-Test scoresBGraduation

Minnesota school districts we grade (491)Better than 45%

Lower resultsHigher results

Minnesota towns with similar household incomes (679)Better than 38%

Towns in Cass County (49)Better than 90%

High confidence. Built on 946 tested students and a graduating class of 75; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Minnesota’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. 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. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
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.

School path

Where Home Brook kids go to school

Grades PK–6

A-PILLAGER ELEMENTARY or C+PINE RIVER-BACKUS ELEMENTARY Depends on your address Pillager Public School District

Grades 7–12

C+Pillager Middle School or CPINE RIVER-BACKUS HIGH SCHOOL Depends on your address Pillager Public School District

Grades 12

CPINE RIVER-BACKUS HIGH SCHOOL or BPillager Senior High School Depends on your address Pine River-Backus Public School District

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Below the state in reading

Reading (grades PK–12, Pillager Public)51%

State average 52.5%

Reading (grades 12, Pine River-Backus Public)46%

State average 52.5%

Math (grades PK–12, Pillager Public)43%

State average 44.2%

Math (grades 12, Pine River-Backus Public)26%

State average 44.2%

Graduation · class of 2020

92% graduate on time

Graduation rate

92%

MN: 84.4%

Graduating class

students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

Two districts serve Home Brook

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Pillager Public School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 3 schools · 1,324 students

$13,305 per studentMN $17,091B 🏫

Pine River-Backus Public School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 3 schools · 906 students

$14,258 per studentMN $17,091C

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

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