Summary:
Audubon, Minnesota has just one listed school — Lake Park Audubon Elementary — serving students in grades PK–6 with an enrollment of 275, and because the city lists no middle, high, or alternative schools, families here likely turn to other schools in the Lake Park Audubon School District or nearby districts for grades 7–12.
That single school, which is ranked 261st of 458 in its district, outperforms its district in all three core subjects, so it stands out most clearly within its own district rather than against the state. Reading is the school's steadiest strength: all-grade reading proficiency is 50.6%, above the district's 45.3% and the state's 48.6%, and 3rd-grade reading is 52.6% versus 46.8% statewide. Third-grade math is also strong at 68.4% proficient, 10.5 points above the state. The school also has a favorable 7.9 students per teacher, though 41.09% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. The main concerns are science, at 18.2% all-grade proficiency compared with 25.5% statewide, and math, which sits 3.1 points below the state overall.
Looking grade by grade, math proficiency falls steadily from 68.4% in 3rd grade to 45.8% in 4th, 36.4% in 5th, and 24.1% in 6th — 15.4 points below the state by 6th grade. Science in 5th grade is 7.7 points below the state, but it did improve by 6.72 points year over year, narrowing the gap from -14.67 points to -7.3 points. Math, by contrast, dropped 7.86 points school-wide while the state was nearly flat, which moved the school from above to below the state in that subject. The overall trend is downward: the school slipped from the 57th to the 47th percentile and from 3 stars to 2 stars over three years. The clearest targets are math in grades 4–6 and 5th-grade science, while protecting the school's reading and early-math gains.
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