Greenway Middle, Coleraine MN - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Greenway Middle

Greenway Middle sits in Coleraine, a small town on the north shore of Trout Lake in Itasca County that was originally planned as a model company town by U.S. Steel’s Oliver Iron Mining Company. The community is quiet and rural, shaped by outdoor recreation and its mining heritage, and its population has been slowly declining. The school serves grades five through eight and is part of the Greenway Public School District.

Enrollment is modest and spread fairly evenly across the four grade levels. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly White, with a notable share of students who are American Indian or Alaska Native, as well as a smaller but still visible share of students who identify as two or more races. The school does not report counts for students receiving special education services or English learner support; that absence means a parent may want to ask the school about how those populations are served.

State assessment results are available for the 2024-25 school year, the only year of data on record, so no trend can be drawn. In both math and English language arts, proficiency rates start near half or just above half in fifth grade and drop noticeably by eighth grade. In math, the decline is particularly sharp: the share of students meeting state standards by eighth grade is about a sixth. In English language arts, about a quarter of eighth graders are proficient, down from over half in fifth grade. Science results are similarly weak in eighth grade, where about one in seven students scored proficient, while fifth-grade science proficiency is about a quarter. Overall, the school’s combined proficiency index sits below the midpoint among the seven districts in Itasca County. The pattern of declining results between the early middle school years and the later ones is a soft spot a parent may want to look into further with the school.

The school building is located on Roosevelt Avenue in the compact downtown core of Coleraine, near Longyear Park, the Carnegie Library, and City Hall. The town’s walkable grid and lakeside park provide a contained, small-town setting. Housing values in the area are modest relative to state and national benchmarks.

In November 2023, district voters approved a new operating levy that increased per-pupil funding by a meaningful amount. That levy, funded through a mix of state aid and local property taxes, means higher property tax obligations for district residents but also additional operational revenue for the schools. No other recent parent-relevant changes were identified in available records.

Because Greenway Middle is a middle school, it does not report a graduation rate. Information on chronic absenteeism and discipline was not available in the data provided. A parent considering this school will find a small, community-anchored middle school in a historically mining town, with academic results that are strongest in the early middle grades and then trail off, set against a stable but slowly shrinking local population.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 556%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 21 pts above state median

Grade 647%

School 47% · District 47%

▲ 20 pts above state median

Grade 728%

School 28% · District 28%

▲ 4 pts above state median

Grade 817%

School 17% · District 17%

▼ 9 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 556%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 2 pts above state median

Grade 652%

School 52% · District 52%

▲ 6 pts above state median

Grade 735%

School 35% · District 35%

▼ 1 pts below state median

Grade 827%

School 27% · District 27%

▼ 8 pts below state median

Science

Grade 528%

School 28% · District 28%

▲ 4 pts above state median

Grade 814%

School 14% · District 14%

▲ 2 pts above state median

This schoolGREENWAY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 4Lower-income65%Higher-income76%10 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income45%Higher-income71%27 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income43%Higher-income65%22 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income32%Higher-income37%5 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income36%Higher-income19%17 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 4Lower-income69%Higher-income76%6 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income38%Higher-income81%43 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income46%Higher-income50%4 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income27%Higher-income29%2 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income23%Higher-income12%11 pp gap