Summary
Renville County West Elementary is a PK–6 school serving 329 students in the small rural community of Renville in west-central Minnesota, part of Renville County West Schools. For 2025–2026, the school ranked 644 of 869 Minnesota elementary schools — the 26th percentile, or 1 star. Its district ranked 238 of 458 (48th percentile, 2 stars). The school has been a 1-star school every year since 2015–2016, with percentile ranks between 25 and 28, so the low performance is not a one-year dip.
In 2025–2026, 33.9% of students met standards in math, 36.3% in reading, and 14.6% in science, versus state rates of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. Math and reading track close to the district, but science falls 8.9 points below the district and 10.9 below the state. Among nearby schools, Redwood Valley Elementary School reported 64.4% in math and 45.6% in reading, MACCRAY Elementary 53.9% and 46.7%, and BOLD-Bird Island Elementary 45.7% in math and 29.4% in science. Renville County West's free/reduced lunch rate of 45.59% is similar to or lower than several of those peers, and its student–teacher ratio of 12.2 is close to Redwood Valley's 12.4 — so poverty and class size alone do not explain the gap. The very small E.C.H.O. Elementary (27 students) is not a useful benchmark.
Grade-level results are uneven. Third-grade math, at 56.5%, is close to the state's 57.9%, and sixth-grade reading, at 46.3%, is the school's strongest reading result, though still below the state's 53.4%. The weak spots are upper-elementary math and reading: fifth-grade math is 17.1% against a state rate of 41.9%, and fourth-grade reading is 26.8% against 48.8%. Science is tested only in fifth grade, so the school's 14.6% science score is concentrated in that single grade. No reported student subgroup ranked above the 40th percentile in 2025–2026; students from low-income families ranked 1 star at the 15th percentile, down from the 34th the year before, and students in special education also ranked 1 star.
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