Summary:
Esko Public School District in Minnesota is home to a single elementary school, Winterquist Elementary, which serves students in grades PK–6 at 2 E Highway 61 in Esko with an enrollment of 684. Because it is the only elementary school in the Esko Public School District, all elementary-level figures reflect both the school and the district, but that does not diminish how strong the results are: the district ranks 14th out of 458 Minnesota districts, placing it in the 97th percentile with 5 stars.
Winterquist's clearest strength is math, where all-grade proficiency was 70.8% in 2025–2026 — 25.9 percentage points above the state and 7.5 points above the district. Every reported grade level beat the state in math, with the biggest gap in 6th grade at +27.5 points. Reading is also strong, with 69.8% proficiency, or +21.2 points over the state and +2.6 over the district; reading improved by about 3.4 points from the prior year. Science is the relative weak spot: 27.1% proficiency trailed the district's 33.7% by 6.6 points, though it still edged the state's 25.5% by just 1.6 points, and 5th grade science was only 1.2 points above the state.
Year over year, math slipped from 72.4% to 70.8% (about 1.6 points) and science fell from 30.34% to 27.1%, while reading rose. The school's 2025–2026 rank was 84th of 869 — 90th percentile and still 5 stars — down from 71st of 872 the year before, when it was at the 92nd percentile. Context for families: the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch rate was 16.37% and the student-teacher ratio was 16.1.
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