Summary:
Northland Elementary is the single elementary school serving Northland Community Schools, a rural Minnesota district based in Remer, and it enrolls 185 students in grades PK–5 at 316 Main St E; because it is the only elementary school in the district, all comparisons below are between this school and statewide averages.
The school's results trail Minnesota in every tested subject. In 2025–2026, 16.9% of students were proficient in math (state: 44.9%), 22.1% in reading (state: 48.6%), and 10.8% in science (state: 25.5%) — gaps of roughly 28, 26, and 15 percentage points. The weakest signal is 3rd grade, where both math and reading are reported at 0% proficiency, compared with state rates of 57.9% and 46.8%. Grade-level cohorts at a school this small can swing widely from year to year, so those figures should be read with caution. The relative bright spots are 5th grade reading at 32.4% and 4th grade math at 28.6%, though both still fall well short of state averages of 54.5% and 55.2%. Science is essentially a 5th grade measure here, since the all-grade science figure matches the 5th grade result exactly.
Scores also moved in the wrong direction, with reading down about 9 points and science down more than 8 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026; math slipped about 4 points. Statewide, the school ranked 771 of 869 in 2025–2026 — the 11th percentile with 1 star — and has stayed in the bottom 11th–15th percentile with 1 star for three straight years. The district itself ranks 380 of 458, or the 17th percentile. About 77.3% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, indicating high economic need, while the student-teacher ratio of 8 is relatively favorable. For parents, the takeaway is a small, high-need school with strong staffing levels but persistently below-average outcomes and continued declines.
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