Summary:
Elgin, Minnesota is served by two public schools — Plainview-Elgin-Millville 4-5 and Plainview-Elgin-Millville Middle — both part of the Plainview-Elgin-Millville district, together enrolling about 550 students in grades 4 through 8, with no high school inside Elgin itself.
On 2025–2026 test scores, the 4–5 school is the steadier performer. It tops state averages in math (51.1% vs 44.9%), reading (53.7% vs 48.6%), and science (31.6% vs 25.5%). Fifth grade is its clear strength — math 56.8% against a state figure of 41.9%, reading 66.3% vs 54.5% — while 4th grade trails state in math (45.3% vs 55.2%) and reading (41.1% vs 48.8%). The middle school is more uneven. Reading sits above state in every grade (6th 55.9% vs 53.4%, 7th 46.9% vs 43.5%, 8th 52.5% vs 50.0%), and 8th grade math is a bright spot at 52.6% vs 42.3%. But overall math (40.0%) lands below both district (48.7%) and state (44.9%), and 6th and 7th grade math fall short of state.
Rankings track that pattern. The 4–5 school slipped gradually from the 75th to the 63rd percentile over two years, while the middle school held 82nd and 84th percentile with 4 stars before dropping to the 68th percentile and 3 stars in 2025–2026 — the same year its math fell 12.49 points. Both schools sit in a district rated 101st of 458 (78th percentile, 4 stars). One note for reading the numbers: science is tested only in 5th and 8th grade, so "all grades" science is really a single grade — the middle school's 16.3% is close to the 8th grade state average of 16.7%. The 4–5 school also has about twice as many students per grade (roughly 158 vs 78) and a lower student-teacher ratio (15.9 vs 18.0).
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