Summary:
Elementary schools in this area are represented by a single school: North Shore Community School, a PK–6 elementary school with 355 students located on Ryan Rd in Duluth, MN. It is also its own district — North Shore Community School — so district and school results are identical throughout the test-score data, and the district's 4-star, 74th-percentile rating (120th of 458 districts) reflects this one school entirely.
Academically, the school is strong in its core subjects. Reading proficiency is 61.1% versus 48.6% statewide, and math is 56.6% versus 44.9%. Reading is above the state average at every tested grade, with 6th grade reading the standout at 78.6% — 25.2 points above the state. Math is above the state in 3rd (63.8% vs. 57.9%), 4th (64.2% vs. 55.2%), and 6th grade (58.1% vs. 39.5%), with only 5th grade slightly below at 39.2% vs. 41.9%. Context matters here: roughly 30% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–25, and the student-teacher ratio was 13.9.
The clear red flag is science: 12% proficiency in 2025–26 against 25.5% statewide, the only subject where the school trails. It also fell sharply from 32% in 2024–25 — a 20-point decline. That drop, along with small year-over-year dips in math (56.6% from 57.44%) and reading (61.1% from 64.25%), lines up with the school's ranking slide from 4 stars and the 77th percentile (201st of 872) in 2024–25 to 3 stars and the 67th percentile (284th of 869) in 2025–26. Because science is reported only for 5th grade, that result may be sensitive to small-cohort variability. The bottom line for families: a generally strong math and reading school whose science results bear watching.
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