Summary:
La Crescent Montessori & STEM School is a small Minnesota district serving about 101 students across two schools in the same building: La Crescent Montessori & STEM Academy for grades K–6 (55 students) and La Crescent Sec Montessori/STEM for grades 7–12 (46 students). There is no separate middle school, so the upper school covers seventh grade through twelfth. Overall, the district ranks 176 of 458 in Minnesota, at the 62nd percentile with 3 stars.
The high school is the standout. It ranks 152 of 473 statewide (68th percentile, 3 stars), well above the district and far above the elementary school. Its all-grades reading proficiency is 72.7% versus 48.6% statewide, with 10th grade reading at 70% versus 42.5% for the state, and all-grades science is 35.1% versus 25.5% statewide. Math is the clear weak spot: all-grades math sits at 38.9%, below both the district (42%) and state (44.9%), and the prior year's all-grades math was 10%, far below the state's 45.21%. Several grade-level math scores are suppressed by the state, so the picture is incomplete.
The elementary school is improving, moving from the 36th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 49th percentile in 2025–2026 (2 stars). Its reading proficiency of 64.5% beats the state's 48.6% but trails the district's 67.9%; math is 43.8%, just under the state and slightly above the district. A striking split appears in sixth grade, where reading is 70% (state: 53.4%) but math is 20% (state: 39.5%). The high school also has a lower student-teacher ratio (9.7 vs. 14.2) and a higher free/reduced-price lunch rate (34.78% vs. 25.45%). With such small enrollment and many suppressed values, treat these results as directional rather than definitive.
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