Summary:
Hanover, Minnesota is a single-school city for public education in this data set, with one elementary school serving grades K–5 and no middle or high schools, so older students attend elsewhere in the district. Hanover Elementary is therefore the entire public-school footprint here, and it is a strong one: a K–5 school with 368 students in the Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools district, located at 274 Labeauxe Ave NE.
Hanover Elementary is a top-performing school statewide. For 2025–2026 it ranked 36th out of 869 ranked schools, placing in the 96th percentile with 5 stars, and it has held a top-decile position for three straight years (91st percentile in 2023–2024, then 96th in both of the last two years). Its own district, by contrast, ranks 133 of 458 districts at the 71st percentile with 4 stars, so the school stands out well above its district as well as the state. In 2025–2026 it beat both district and state in every reported subject and grade. All-grades math proficiency was 79.2% versus the state's 44.9%, with 3rd-grade math highest at 88.9%. Reading was steady across grades, ranging only from 69.0% to 72.0%, and all-grades reading was 70.1% against the state's 48.6%. Science, reported only for 5th grade, was 44.0% — above district and state, but down 9.57 points from 53.57% the year before, the main item to watch.
Other context: 11.41% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 17.8, which works out to roughly 21 teachers for 368 students. Overall, this is a 5-star, top-4% Minnesota elementary school with excellent math and reading results and consistent high rankings.
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