Summary:
Families in the Discovery Charter School area have one public elementary option: Discovery Charter Elementary School in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. It is part of the Discovery Charter School district and serves grades K–8, so students can stay in the same building through middle school. Enrollment is 166 students, with a 9:1 student-teacher ratio and 39.76% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025. Because the district appears to operate this single school, school and district test results are identical, making the Minnesota state average the most useful benchmark.
Compared with the state, the school is strongest in science: 34.4% of students are proficient, versus 25.5% statewide, and 5th-grade science reaches 50% against the state's 25.9%. Reading is also above average at 52.4% versus 48.6%, while math is nearly even at 43.8% versus 44.9%. Results vary widely by grade, though. Third-grade math is 83.3% versus 57.9% statewide and 5th-grade reading is 80% versus 54.5%, but 4th, 6th, and 8th grade math each trail their state averages by roughly 19 points, and 4th-grade reading is 25% versus 48.8%. With so few students per grade, a student or two can move these percentages a lot.
Performance improved across all three tested subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: math rose 6.69 points, reading 2.94 points, and science 19.4 points, lifting science from below the state average to above it. The school ranked 330 of 869 schools, the 62nd percentile, in 2025–2026, up from 424 of 872 and the 51st percentile the year before, and it has held a 3-star rating for three years. The district is ranked 209 of 458, the 54th percentile, with 3 stars. Note that 7th-grade math and reading results were suppressed by the state, so those are unknown rather than a weakness.
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