Editing Rockford, Minnesota (section)

==Education==
The main school district is Rockford Public Schools.  They include an elementary school (grades preschool to 4th grade) a middle school (grades 5 through 8) and a high school (9th through 12th). The elementary focuses mainly on an arts program, while the middle and high schools put more of an emphasis on technology.<ref>http://www.rockford.k12.mn.us/se3bin/clientschool.cgi?schoolname=school247{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>  The high school has, for the past four years, scored higher than the state average in mathematics.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.schooldigger.com/go/MN/schools/3207001368/school.aspx?entity=42&grade=11 | title=Rockford Secondary }}</ref> Originally, the Rockford School District was established by the Wright county commissioners on September 6, 1856 and the first school house was constructed by 1860. During the 1960s the school underwent redistricting that gave its current designation as Independent School District # 883.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mnschools.com/school-finder/school-districts/rockford-883/ |title=Rockford – District 883 - Minnesota Schools |access-date=2015-02-03 |archive-date=2015-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203160459/http://www.mnschools.com/school-finder/school-districts/rockford-883/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>