Summary:
Dayton, Minnesota has one public school in this data set: Dayton Elementary, a K–5 school with 556 students in the Anoka-Hennepin School District. The area lists 1 elementary, 0 middle, 0 high, and 0 alternative schools, so families here have detailed elementary data but no local middle- or high-school picture.
Dayton Elementary’s clearest academic strength is math: 62.2% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, versus 51% in the district and 44.9% statewide — 11.2 points above the district and 17.3 points above the state. Every tested grade beats both benchmarks, and 5th-grade math (55.6%) is 13.7 points above the state. Reading is 52.8%, above the district (50.9%) and state (48.6%), and it improved from 50.78% a year earlier even as district and state reading declined. Science is the concern: it fell from 30.86% to 23.3%, now 3.8 points below the district and 2.2 points below the state. Since science is tested only in 5th grade here, that all-grade figure reflects a single cohort.
The school ranks 292 out of 869 Minnesota schools in 2025–2026, at the 66th percentile with 3 stars — up from 326th (63rd percentile) in 2023–2024 and holding 3 stars all three years. Its district sits at the 60th percentile. For context, 28.96% of students qualified for free/reduced-price lunch and the student-teacher ratio was 13:1 in 2024–2025, though the data provides no district or state benchmarks for those measures. Overall, this is a solidly above-average elementary school, strongest in math, with science the area to watch.
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