Summary:
The La Crescent Montessori & STEM School district contains a single elementary school: La Crescent Montessori & STEM Academy, located at 1116 S Oak St in La Crescent, Minnesota. It serves grades K–6 with 55 students enrolled. The district is ranked 176 of 458 Minnesota districts, placing it in the 62nd percentile with 3 stars, while the school's own rank history shows it at 49th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026 — up from 36th percentile in 2023–2024. About 25.45% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 14.2.
Reading is the standout strength. In 2025–2026, all-grade Reading proficiency was 64.5%, roughly 15.9 points above the state's 48.6%, and 6th-grade Reading reached 70% versus the state's 53.4%. Reading also improved sharply year over year, rising from 46.67% in 2024–2025 to 64.5% in 2025–2026. All-grade Science, at 27.3%, was slightly above the state's 25.5%.
Math is closer to the state overall — 43.8% versus 44.9%, about 1.1 points below — but weaker in the upper grades, with 6th-grade Math at 20% against the state's 39.5% and 5th-grade Math at 36.4% against 41.9%. Fifth-grade Reading, at 45.5%, also trailed the state's 54.5%, and Science sat below the district's 33.3%. With only 55 students across K–6, these grade-level figures rest on very small groups, and values shown as "—" were suppressed by the state for privacy rather than being zero, so the full picture is incomplete.
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