Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 55014

ZIP code 55014, covering Lino Lakes and Circle Pines, Minnesota, is home to six elementary schools serving roughly 2,900 students in grades PK through 5. Five of them — Blue Heron Elementary, Rice Lake Elementary, Centennial Elementary, Golden Lake Elementary, and Lino Lakes Elementary — serve state-tested grades, while Early Childhood Center enrolls PK–K only, so it has no test scores or ranking by design. Five of the six schools belong to Centennial Public School District, which ranks 58th of 458 Minnesota districts; Lino Lakes Elementary belongs to Forest Lake Public School District. As a group, the area performs well above the state: all five tested schools beat Minnesota averages in both math (44.9%) and reading (48.6%).

Rice Lake Elementary is in a tier of its own — ranked 27th of 869 Minnesota elementary schools (97th percentile, 5 stars) and holding near that level for three straight years, with math at 80.8%, reading at 73.7%, and science at 50.4%, roughly double the state's 25.5%. Blue Heron Elementary is the strong second, ranked 165th (81st percentile, 4 stars), beating the state by 20.8 points in math and 12.8 in reading; its 5th graders post the school's best reading score at 72.8%. By contrast, Lino Lakes Elementary is the lowest-ranked of the group (432nd of 869, 50th percentile), with the area's weakest science score at 14.1% and 5th grade math at 27.0%.

Science is the shared weak spot: Golden Lake Elementary (19.0%) and Centennial Elementary (21.6%) also fall below the state average, and three schools see weaker 5th grade results than their earlier grades — though not Rice Lake or Blue Heron. Over three years, Golden Lake has slipped from the 75th to the 65th percentile and Lino Lakes from the 65th to the 50th, while Centennial Elementary improved to the 64th. Notably, Lino Lakes Elementary's reading (54.3%) still beats its own district average (49.6%).