Summary:
Red Wing, Minnesota is home to four elementary schools serving about 931 students across a wide mix of grade configurations, from a K–1 building to a PK–8 charter. Red Wing Public School District operates the two largest: Burnside Elementary (grades 2–4, 493 students) and Sunnyside Elementary (grades K–1, 294 students), which together enroll roughly 84.5% of the students listed here. The other two are much smaller and structured differently: Creekstone Montessori (PK–8, 122 students) in Creekstone Montessori Charter, and 5RiversOnline Elementary (K–6, 22 students) in Goodhue County Education District.
Among schools with test data, Creekstone Montessori stands out most. Its all-grade science proficiency is 50%, about double the state's 25.5%, and reading is 48%, essentially at the state's 48.6%. Its rank has climbed for three straight listed years, from the 23rd to the 42nd percentile, and it has the lowest free/reduced-lunch rate of the four at 17.21%. Math, however, remains below state (34.0% vs. 44.9%), and with only 122 students some results may swing from year to year.
Burnside Elementary is the largest school and the most test-visible traditional public option. Its math proficiency of 37.7% is above its district's 33.5% but below the state's 44.9%; reading of 31.5% trails both its district and the state, and its rank percentile slipped from 30 to 19. Its free/reduced-lunch rate, 40.57%, is the highest of the four. Sunnyside Elementary serves only K–1, so it has no MCA scores and cannot be judged academically on this data. 5RiversOnline Elementary is a 22-student online outlier with a 4.7 student/teacher ratio; its math is 7.7% and many grade-level figures are suppressed, so comparisons are difficult. Math is a shared weakness: every school with data falls below the state's 44.9%.
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