Summary:
Ellendale, Minnesota is home to exactly one listed school: NRHEG Elementary, an elementary school serving grades PK–5 with 354 students, part of the NRHEG School District. The area summary reports 0 middle schools, 0 high schools, and 0 alternative schools, so there are no other local schools to compare against. Instead, the most useful comparisons for parents are grade-level results versus the state, subject results versus the district, and this year versus last year.
Math is the clearest strength. All-grade math proficiency is 54.4%, which is 9.5 percentage points above the state and 22.2 points above the district. Third-grade math is the single highest reported figure for the school at 70.5%, 12.6 points above the state. Reading is more mixed: all-grade reading is 45.2%, 3.4 points below the state but 8.2 points above the district. Third-grade reading is 4.4 points above the state and fifth-grade reading is 4.5 points below, but fourth-grade reading stands out as a weak spot at 33.3% — 15.5 points below the state, the largest negative gap in the data. Science is the weakest subject overall, with all-grade and fifth-grade science both at 13.8%, below the district and well below the state, and the prior year was similarly low at 15.0%.
Overall, NRHEG Elementary holds a 2-star rating and sits in the middle of the state distribution, with percentiles of 47, 48, and 45 across the last three reported years — stable, with a slight dip in 2025–2026. Enrollment is 354 students, the student/teacher ratio is 11.4 (implying roughly 31 teachers), and 42.09% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, or roughly 149 students. One caveat: at grades 3–5, district figures match school figures exactly, so all-grade district comparisons should be read with some care.
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