Summary:
Marine Area Community School is the only school in this area — a single elementary campus serving grades K–5 with 112 students in Marine On Saint Croix, Minnesota. It is also its own district: the Marine Area Community School district contains just this one campus, so school-level and district-level test scores are identical here. With no other local school to compare against, the most useful benchmark is the statewide average.
Reading is the standout strength. All-grade reading proficiency is 64%, compared with 48.6% statewide, and every tested grade is above the state: third grade at 68.4% vs. 46.8%, fourth at 61.1% vs. 48.8%, and fifth at 61.5% vs. 54.5%. Math is also above state overall at 50% vs. 44.9%, though that strength comes from third and fourth grades, where results sit at or just above the state average. The trend lines support the picture: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, math rose from 38% to 50% and reading from 46% to 64%. The school's ranking climbed from 661 of 881 (25th percentile, 1 star) in 2023–2024 to 298 of 869 (66th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026.
Two areas are watch items. Science dropped from 35.71% — above the state's 26.15% — in 2024–2025 to 23.1% in 2025–2026, now below the state's 25.5%; since science is tested only in fifth grade here, that likely reflects one small cohort rather than a broad trend. Fifth-grade math is the other gap, at 30.8% vs. 41.9% statewide. With only 112 students, a few students can move a grade-level rate by several points. Contextually, free/reduced lunch is 10.71% and the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.5, and the district is rated 4 stars, ranked 131 of 458 districts in the 71st percentile.
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