Lino Lakes, MN schools
Lino Lakes’s public schools score well above Minnesota’s averages: 62% of students are proficient in reading against 52.5% statewide, and 83% of high schoolers graduate on time against 84.4%. Kids attend Blue Heron Elementary or Rice Lake Elementary or Lino Lakes Elementary through grade 6, then Centennial Middle or Centennial Middle School Online and Centennial High School or Forest Lake Area High School or Centennial High School Online.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Lino Lakes’s School Grade: A-
The public schools Lino Lakes’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 78% of Minnesota’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
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.
Where Lino Lakes kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well above the state in reading
83% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Two districts serve Lino Lakes
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
All 11 schools in Lino Lakes
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Lino Lakes kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Lino Lakes’s districts that are located in Circle Pines and Forest Lake. Which one depends on your address.