Mora Secondary, Mora MN - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Mora Secondary

Mora Secondary serves students in grades seven through twelve and operates as a regular public school within the Mora Public School District. It sits in the small county-seat town of Mora, a place that blends residential neighborhoods with a compact downtown along Lake Street, where Swedish-heritage theming—a large Dala horse, a clock bell tower, and buildings in Swedish style—reflects the town’s sister-city connection to Mora, Sweden. The local economy draws on healthcare, education, manufacturing, and county government, with the school district itself a major employer. The town is growing slowly, and the built environment is car-oriented outside the downtown core, though streets come alive during annual events like the Vasaloppet USA ski race.

State testing results for the most recent year show a mixed picture. In math, student proficiency varied by grade, with one tested grade level reaching above the midpoint of the range and another falling below it. In English language arts, proficiency was higher, with both tested grades exceeding the midpoint. Science results, available for one grade, were markedly lower, and a parent may want to look into this further with the school to understand how science instruction is delivered and supported at that grade level. Only a single year of data was available, so no trend can be assessed. The school’s overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades places it above the midpoint when compared with the two districts in Kanabec County—a modest strength within a small cohort.

The student body is predominantly white, with smaller shares of Hispanic, two-or-more-races, Asian, American Indian or Alaska Native, and Black students. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a common marker of economic need. Information on special education and English learner populations was not reported in the available data. No graduation rate or chronic absenteeism rate was available in the sources reviewed; for a school serving high school grades, these are important indicators a family may wish to ask about directly.

Housing in the Mora area is less expensive than the state and national medians, with home values having risen in recent years. The local unemployment rate has remained stable, and real median household income has grown gradually over the past decade. For families weighing affordability and community stability, the area offers a slower pace and a lower cost of entry than many parts of the Twin Cities metro.

No information on program offerings such as Advanced Placement, dual credit, career and technical education pathways, or extracurricular breadth was available from the data. Parents interested in academic options beyond the core curriculum should contact the school to learn what is available. The district profile yielded no recent changes or initiatives that would alter a family’s assessment of the school’s current direction.

For a family considering Mora Secondary, the picture is one of a school that performs reasonably well in English language arts and unevenly in math, with a notable soft spot in middle-grade science. The setting is a small, slow-growing town with an affordable housing market and a modest economic base. The absence of comparative data on graduation, absenteeism, and program depth means a family will need to seek those details directly to form a complete view of the academic pathway and support system this school provides.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=95%Cohort of 99 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

649 schools plotted. 88 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 737%

School 37% · District 37% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median

Grade 854%

School 54% · District 53% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 753%

School 53% · District 53%

▲ 17 pts above state median

Grade 863%

School 63% · District 62%

▲ 27 pts above state median

Science

Grade 819%

School 19% · District 18% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median

This schoolMORA 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 7Lower-income37%Higher-income65%27 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income59%Higher-income65%6 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 7Lower-income28%Higher-income44%16 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income43%Higher-income59%16 pp gap