Elementary Schools in Rush City Public School District

Elementary Schools in the Rush City Public School District consist of one school, C.E. Jacobson Elementary, serving grades PK–6 with 414 students in Rush City, MN. Because it is the only public elementary school in the district, there are no within-district elementary comparisons; it competes against district overall figures, Minnesota state averages, and its own prior results. The school reports a 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch rate of 38.16% and a student-teacher ratio of 8.9. In 2025–2026, it earned 2 stars and ranked 516 of 869 schools, at the 41st percentile, while the district overall earned 3 stars and ranked at the 60th percentile.

The school’s clearest strengths are in early grades. Third grade Math proficiency is 70.6%, well above the state’s 57.9%—a +12.7 percentage point advantage—and third grade Reading is 51.5% versus 46.8% statewide, +4.7 points. In 2024–2025, all-grade Math was 50.6%, above both the district (45.96%) and the state (45.21%). All-grade Reading improved from 44.18% in 2024–2025 to 46.8% in 2025–2026, a +2.62 point gain, though it remains 1.8 points below the state. In 2025–2026, all-grade Math was 42.2%, slightly above the district’s 41.0% but 2.7 points below the state’s 44.9%.

The biggest concern is Science: all-grade proficiency is 14.5% versus 25.5% statewide, an 11.0 point gap. Fifth grade Science is also 14.5%, compared with 25.9% statewide, an 11.4 point gap. Upper-elementary Math and Reading are consistently below state: fourth grade Math 42.1% vs. 55.2%, fifth grade Math 28.2% vs. 41.9%, sixth grade Math 29.2% vs. 39.5%; fifth grade Reading 43.4% vs. 54.5%, fourth grade Reading 44.8% vs. 48.8%, and sixth grade Reading 47.7% vs. 53.4%. Year over year, all-grade Math fell 8.4 points and Science fell 9.69 points, while the star rating stayed at 2 stars across three years, with percentiles of 44, 46, and 41. The free/reduced lunch rate and low student-teacher ratio are useful context, but without state or district comparisons they are not definitive strengths.