Report Card on Brainerd Area Schools

The number of schools schools not making the grade has grown, according to the Minnesota Department of Education. A number of Brainerd Lakes Area schools were included. Out of the over 19-hundred Minnesota schools, 937 failed to meet adequate yearly progress. Included were two Brainerd middle schools, and one elementary, Pequot Lakes Middle School and High school, Pine River Elementary and High School, Staples Elementary and High School, Wadena High School and Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School and Middle School. Some were repeats from last year.