Summary:
Elementary schools in the Worthington Public School District include three schools serving 1,913 students: Intermediate School for grades 3–5, Prairie Elementary for grades PK–2, and Virtual Instruction by Excellence E for grades K–6. The district itself is ranked 372 of 458 in Minnesota, in the 19th percentile with a 1-star rating, so most available elementary results here sit below state averages.
Virtual Instruction by Excellence E is the academic standout in reading: 52.8% proficient in 2025–2026, above both the district's 33.8% and the state's 48.6%, with 3rd grade at 75% in reading and 66.7% in math. The prior year was stronger still, at 58.33% math and 77.78% reading. But it is also the most volatile school — its rank dropped from the 89th percentile with 4 stars in 2024–2025 to the 44th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026 — and its profile differs sharply, with a 37.45% free/reduced lunch rate and a student/teacher ratio of 49.8 that may reflect the virtual model rather than a traditional classroom. Intermediate School is stable but low-ranked, holding near the 18th–19th percentile for three years; its math is 30.5%, reading 33.2%, and science 16.5%, all below state levels, though its science is above the district's 9.8%.
Prairie Elementary has the highest free/reduced lunch rate at 73.19% and the lowest student/teacher ratio at 11.8, but because it serves PK–2 it has no current test scores in this data, and its older rankings sit in the 15th–18th percentile range with 1 star. Science is a weak point across the available district data, and Virtual Instruction's science results, along with its 5th and 6th grade results, are suppressed by the state — unknown rather than evidence of weakness. Intermediate's math also declines by grade, from 37.1% in 3rd grade to 26.7% in 5th.
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