Trenton’s public schools score below 82% of North Dakota districts
The public schools Trenton’s kids attend trail 82% of North Dakota’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
How Trenton compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on North Dakota’s state tests against the state average. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of North Dakota only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so 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.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Well below the state in reading
Parents talk
What Trenton families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Trenton
There’s no college in Trenton, but 1 is within 30 miles. The closest is Williston State College in Williston, 12.3 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Trenton. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results, graded within North Dakota. Stars are from neighbors.