Summary:
The St. Louis County School District in Minnesota contains five elementary schools — South Ridge Elementary, Cherry Elementary, North Woods Elementary, Babbitt Elementary, and Tower-Soudan Elementary — all serving grades PK–6 and together enrolling 1,024 students, with individual schools ranging from 95 to 303 students. The district overall rates 323rd of 458 districts (29th percentile, 1 star), below the Minnesota average, which makes the differences among these five schools especially worth understanding.
Cherry Elementary is the clear standout: the only 3-star school in 2025–2026 (358 of 869, 59th percentile), the only school above the state in all-grade Reading (52.1% vs. 48.6%), and strong in Science (35.9% vs. state 25.5%). Its rank percentile climbed from 45th to 53rd to 59th over three years. Babbitt Elementary posts the best Science result at 43.8%, more than double the district's 17.1%, but is uneven elsewhere: Math 30.9% and Reading 38.9% fall below both district and state. South Ridge Elementary, the largest school at 303 students, leads 3rd grade Math at 71.8% but has the lowest Science at 8.1%.
North Woods Elementary is the negative standout — the lowest latest rank (632 of 869, 27th percentile, 1 star), a decline from 46th to 27th percentile, and the group's lowest Reading at 36.5%. Tower-Soudan Elementary is improving (20th to 33rd percentile) but remains below state in all subjects; some of its 6th grade and 2024–2025 Science results are state-suppressed and unknown. Two shared patterns stand out: no school is above the state in all-grade Math in either year, and all five schools fall below the state in 4th grade Math and Reading. Science is the most uneven subject, spanning 8.1% to 43.8%.
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