Summary:
The Eden Valley-Watkins School District serves about 868 students across three schools spanning prekindergarten through 12th grade in central Minnesota. The district holds a 4-star rating and ranks 93rd of 458 Minnesota districts, with an unusual grade setup: Watkins Elementary covers PK–K (60 students), Eden Valley Elementary covers K–6 (383 students), and Eden Valley Secondary covers grades 7–12 (425 students), with no stand-alone middle school.
Eden Valley Elementary is the district's academic standout, beating district and state averages in all three subjects: math 61.3%, reading 53.6%, and science 45.3% — the last nearly 20 points above the state. Third-grade math (75%) and fifth-grade math (70.4%) are especially strong, though 4th-grade math (49.3%) and reading (40.3%) fall below state averages. Eden Valley Secondary posts excellent completion outcomes — a 93% graduation rate and a 2.7% dropout rate, both better than the state — but its all-grade reading (43.7%) trails the district and the state, and 8th-grade reading and science sit below state averages.
Comparing the two tested schools, the elementary outperforms the secondary by 15.1 points in math, 9.9 points in reading, and 15.9 points in science, and that gap has widened in math and reading. District math fell 4.41 points and reading 2.79 points year over year while science rose 2.35 points; the secondary school's math and reading each dropped more than 6.5 points. Both tested schools still hold 4 stars. Watkins Elementary has no test scores or rank history because PK–K grades are not tested; its student/teacher ratio of 10.5 is the district's lowest and its free/reduced lunch rate of 33.33% the highest.
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