Summary:
This area is served by a single school: Bluffview Montessori in Winona, Minnesota. It is classified as an elementary school but actually serves grades K–8, with 209 students, and it is the only school in the Bluffview Montessori district — the area summary lists one elementary school and no middle, high, or alternative schools. Because the district contains just this one school, its school-level and district-level test scores are identical, so comparisons to the state and to grade-level patterns are the most useful way to judge how it is doing.
Reading is clearly the school's strongest subject. In 2025–26, All Grades Reading proficiency was 60.7%, compared with 48.6% statewide — a gap of 12.1 percentage points — and it beat the state at every tested grade. The biggest margins came in the upper grades: Grade 7 Reading was 70% versus 43.5% statewide, and Grade 8 Reading was 70.6% versus 50%. Grade 8 Science was also a standout at 29.4% versus 16.7% statewide. Math improved overall, rising from 43.8% in 2024–25 (slightly below state) to 47.4% in 2025–26 (above state), with Grade 4 Math a bright spot at 62.5%, above the state's 55.2%.
There are areas to watch. Grade 5 Math (36% vs. 41.9% state) and Grade 6 Math (30.8% vs. 39.5%) fell below state, and Grade 5 Science was slightly below state at 24% versus 25.9%. All Grades Science was only 26.2% versus 25.5% statewide, down from a 5.67-point advantage the prior year. The school's statewide rank percentile has drifted from 69 in 2023–24 to 67 in 2024–25 to 62 in 2025–26, still above median with 3 stars, while the district is rated in the 80th percentile with 4 stars. For context, 22.01% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–25, and the student-teacher ratio was 6.8.
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