Summary:
The Marine Area Community School area is served by a single elementary school — Marine Area Community School — a K–5 school in Marine On Saint Croix, MN, with 112 students enrolled. It operates as its own district, Marine Area Community School, which is rated 131st of 458 districts in the data, placing it in the 71st percentile with 4 stars. Because there is only one elementary school here, comparisons below are made against state averages rather than against other local schools.
Reading is the school's clear strength: 64% of students are proficient overall in 2025-2026, compared with 48.6% statewide — a 15.4 percentage-point advantage. Every tested grade beats the state, including 3rd grade at 68.4% (21.6 points above), 4th grade at 61.1% (12.3 points above), and 5th grade at 61.5% (7.0 points above). Overall math is also above state at 50% versus 44.9%, but that strength comes from 3rd and 4th grades; 5th-grade math is 30.8%, which is 11.1 points below the state's 41.9%. Science is the weakest subject at 23.1%, slightly under the state's 25.5%; because that figure appears to reflect only 5th grade, year-over-year science comparisons should be treated cautiously.
The school's trajectory is notably upward. It moved from 661st of 881 schools (25th percentile, 1 star) in 2023-2024 to 298th of 869 (66th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025-2026 — a 41-percentile-point gain. Math rose from 38% to 50% and reading from 46% to 64% in one year, moving the school from below state averages in both subjects to above them. Its context is favorable: a 10.5 student-teacher ratio and a 10.71% free/reduced lunch rate in 2024-2025. With only 112 students across K–5, individual grade cohorts are small, so grade-level percentages such as 5th-grade math and science can shift considerably from year to year.
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