Summary:
Elementary schools in the Mabel-Canton Public School District come down to a single school: Mabel-Canton Elementary, a PK–6 campus in Mabel, Minnesota, serving 143 students. The district as a whole ranks 65th of 458 Minnesota districts, placing it in the 86th percentile with 4 stars, and the elementary school itself has earned 4 stars in each of the last two reported school years. None of the school's test-score results are suppressed by the state, so all figures below are reported values.
Reading is the school's clearest strength. In 2025–2026, 69.9% of students met reading proficiency standards, compared with 64% for the district and 48.6% for the state — 21.3 percentage points above the state. Every reported grade level beat the state in reading, from 3rd grade (+15.7 points) through 6th grade, where 85% proficiency was the highest figure in the school's data. Science also improved sharply, rising from 31.82% in 2024–2025 to 43.5% in 2025–2026, which is 9.2 points above the district and 18.0 points above the state; science is only reported for 5th grade here. Math stood at 50%, above the state's 44.9%, though results vary by grade: 3rd grade was very strong at 81.3%, while 4th grade (46.7%) and 5th grade (34.8%) fell below their state averages.
The school's ranking trend is consistent: 323rd of 881 schools (63rd percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024, then 179th of 872 (79th percentile, 4 stars) in 2024–2025 and 189th of 869 (78th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026, so the move up to 4 stars has held for two years. Parents should keep the school's size in mind, because with 143 students the grade-level cohorts are small and a few students can shift a percentage by many points, making single-year grade-level numbers worth reading with caution. For context, the school reported a 24.48% free/reduced lunch rate and a student/teacher ratio of 14.7 in 2024–2025.
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