Summary:
Cedar, Minnesota has two public elementary schools — Cedar Creek Elementary School and East Bethel Elementary School — both serving grades K–5 in the St. Francis Area Schools district. The district is ranked 154 of 458 Minnesota districts, at the 66th percentile with 3 stars. There are no middle, high, or alternative schools in this snapshot, and no test values were suppressed or reported as ranges.
East Bethel is the standout: it leads Cedar Creek in all three tested subjects in 2025–2026, with math at 54.7 versus 48.3, reading at 57.1 versus 48.3, and science at 30.1 versus 22.3. It also ranks higher (295 of 869, 66th percentile, 3 stars) than Cedar Creek (450 of 869, 48th percentile, 2 stars), and its rank has climbed from 394 to 383 to 295 while Cedar Creek's has slipped from 355 to 401 to 450. East Bethel has the smaller average class size (a student-teacher ratio of 12.7 versus 14.4) and a higher free/reduced lunch rate (34.57% versus 28.82%) — yet still posts the stronger current results and positive year-over-year movement in math, reading, and science, while Cedar Creek declined in all three.
Grade-level results add detail. Cedar Creek's brightest spots are 4th grade reading, where it scores 46.8 against East Bethel's 43.2, and 4th grade math, nearly tied at 56.5 versus 56.8 and above the state average. East Bethel shines in 3rd grade reading (60.8) and 5th grade reading (71.2), the highest grade-level figure in the dataset. Science is the weakest subject for both, though East Bethel is above the district and state while Cedar Creek is below. Overall, East Bethel is the stronger, improving school; Cedar Creek is larger but currently trails. With only two schools and a short time window, treat these patterns as descriptive, not causal.
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