Summary:
Hayfield Elementary is the only elementary school in the Hayfield Public School District, serving grades PK–5 to 302 students in Hayfield, Minnesota, where 40.07% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025 and the student-teacher ratio was 10.2. Because it is the district's sole elementary school, it represents the entire elementary picture for local families.
Math is this school's clearest strength. In 2025–2026, all-grades math proficiency reached 51.1%, above both the district's 39.4% and the state's 44.9%. Fourth grade math stood out at 68.8%, 13.6 percentage points above the state's 55.2%. The school also improved year over year in math (42.5% to 51.1%) and reading (33.96% to 36.9%), and it went from 627 of 872 schools with 1 star in 2024–2025 to 562 of 869 with 2 stars in 2025–2026. Notably, in 2025–2026 it outperformed the district in all three subjects after trailing it in reading and science the prior year.
Reading and science remain the biggest concerns. All-grades reading was 36.9% versus the state's 48.6%, and all-grades science was 15.4% versus the state's 25.5%. Fifth grade reading was the lowest point at 34.6%, 19.9 percentage points below the state's 54.5%, and fifth grade science was 10.5 points below the state. Despite the rebound, the school's 2025–2026 rank percentile of 35 is still below its 2023–2024 level of 46, and the district ranks 324 of 458 districts at the 29th percentile with 1 star. Grade-level results also vary widely, with math ranging from 30.8% in 5th grade to 68.8% in 4th grade — swings that can reflect small cohorts in a 302-student school.
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