Summary:
Lynd, Minnesota has exactly one public elementary school — Lynd Elementary, serving grades PK–5 with 104 students. Because it is the only elementary school in the city, there is no local comparison to make; it is effectively the entire elementary market for the area. It belongs to the Lynd Public School District, itself ranked 326th of 458 districts in Minnesota (29th percentile, 1 star). The school enrolls a majority low-income population — 58.65% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch — and holds a small student–teacher ratio of 11.8 to 1, or roughly 15 students per grade.
In 2025-2026, 32% of students were proficient in both math and reading, against state averages of 44.9% and 48.6% — about 13 points behind in math and 17 in reading. Math is the bright spot: it rose roughly 4.7 points year over year while the state was flat, and it beat the district's 25.6%. Reading moved the other way, falling about 7.4 points against a nearly flat state and slipping below the district's 35.4%. The school's best recent year was 2024-2025, when it reached 610th of 872 schools (30th percentile, 2 stars); it has since returned to the 22nd percentile with 1 star. It has never risen out of the bottom third of Minnesota elementary schools.
Grade-level results also swing sharply in opposite directions: 3rd graders scored 50% in math but 16.7% in reading, while 4th graders scored 15.4% in math — nearly 40 points below the state — but 46.2% in reading. With about 15 students per grade, one student changing status moves a grade rate by 6–7 points, so treat these gaps as directional signals rather than precise measurements. No 5th-grade rows appear in this data despite the school serving grade 5, and the 2025-2026 scores are reported as whole numbers. No figures were suppressed by the state.
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