Schools · Summit

Summit, MN schools

Summit’s public schools score above Minnesota’s averages: 57% of students are proficient in reading against 52.5% statewide, and 95% of high schoolers graduate on time against 84.4%. Kids attend Nrheg Elementary or Blooming Prairie Elementary through grade 5, then Nrheg Secondary or Blooming Prairie High School.

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

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Summit’s School Grade: B

The public schools Summit’s kids attend outperform 61% of Minnesota’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

BTest scores
Minnesota school districts we grade (491)Better than 61%
Lower resultsHigher results
Minnesota towns with similar household incomes (1,342)Better than 46%
Towns in Steele County (13)Better than 85%
High confidence. Built on 756 tested students; 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. 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.
School path

Where Summit kids go to school

Grades PK–5
B-Nrheg Elementary or ABlooming Prairie Elementary Depends on your address NRHEG School District
Grades 6–12
CNrheg Secondary or C+Blooming Prairie High School Depends on your address NRHEG School District

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

Test scores · 2020–21

Well below the state in reading

Reading (grades PK–12, NRHEG)40%
State average 52.5%
Reading (Blooming Prairie Public)57%
State average 52.5%
Math (grades PK–12, NRHEG)40%
State average 44.2%
Math (Blooming Prairie Public)50%
State average 44.2%
Graduation · class of 2020

95% graduate on time

Graduation rate
95%
MN: 84.4%
Graduating class
58
students

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

Districts

Two districts serve Summit

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

Within reach

Colleges near Summit

There’s no college in Summit, but 1 college is within 30 miles. The closest is Riverland Community College in Austin, 18.8 miles away.

Straight-line distance from the center of Summit. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.

We don’t have any schools located in Summit yet.

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