Proctor Senior High School

About Proctor Senior High School

Proctor Senior High School enrolls roughly 540 students in grades 9 through 12 (NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-2025, accessed 2026-08-13), which makes it one of the smaller public high schools in the Twin Ports area.

The teams are the Rails, in a town that exists because the Duluth, Missabe and Northern needed flat ground above the hill to sort ore cars. Nobody in Proctor has ever had to explain the nickname.

The practical trade against Duluth's ISD 709 is scale. A class this size lets a student play multiple sports, be in the play, and be in the band, but it cannot match the course catalog, advanced placement range, or specialized programming of a large district. Compare actual course offerings rather than reputations.

Proctor Public Schools enrolls about 1,848 students across its four main schools plus an early childhood center and alternative programs (NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-2025). The district's attendance area extends beyond the city into Duluth's Bayview Heights neighborhood and north toward Pike Lake, so a Duluth mailing address in this corner of the metro does not automatically mean an ISD 709 school assignment. Boundaries change, so confirm a specific address with the district. This guide builds its own transparent school ratings from Minnesota Department of Education report card data rather than republishing licensed third-party scores.

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Where these facts come from

• NCES Common Core of Data, school list for Proctor Public Schools (273009001551) accessed 2026-08-13

Last reviewed 2026-08-13 by Guide editorial.