Best Public Schools in Lonsdale, MN

Lonsdale, Minnesota has one school in this data set — Lonsdale Pre K-6 — an elementary school serving grades PK–6 with 331 students, located in a small community within the Tri-City United School District, which is ranked 206th of 458 Minnesota districts (about the 55th percentile, 3 stars). The school's student-teacher ratio is 13.6, and 23.56% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025. Because Lonsdale has only one school in this record, there is no other local school to compare it against, so its results are best read against district and state averages.

There is real strength in the early grades. Third grade math stands out at 68.9% proficient — 12.2 points above the district and 11.0 points above the state. Fourth grade reading is 46.3%, which is 7.1 points above the district and only 2.5 points below the state. Overall, all-grade math (44.6%) is essentially at the state level (44.9%) and clearly above the district's 38.1%. In 2024–2025, the school's all-grade math score of 51.92% was above both district and state.

The concerns are concentrated in the upper grades and in science. Sixth grade math is 22.2% proficient — 5.2 points below the district and 17.3 points below the state — while sixth grade reading is 39.1%, 14.3 points below the state. Science trails both district and state, with all-grade science at 21.6% and fifth grade science at 21.6%. The school's rank has also slipped over three years, from 348 of 881 (60th percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024 to 518 of 869 (40th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026. In 2025–2026, math fell 7.32 points and reading fell 7.50 points at the school, far steeper than the district or state declines, suggesting the drop is concentrated at this school rather than a broader trend.