Summary:
Zip code 55042 in Lake Elmo, Minnesota, contains three schools — two elementary, one middle, and no high schools or alternative schools — enrolling 1,731 students, with two of the three (1,643 students, roughly 95% of the total) belonging to Stillwater Area Public Schools, which ranks 47 of 458 districts in the state.
Among the schools here, Oak-Land Middle School (946 students, grades 6–8) has the strongest overall rank profile, placing 81 of 546 middle schools with 4 stars and an 85th percentile ranking, an improvement from 138 the prior year. Its reading proficiency (58.4%) tops the state (48.6%), and its 7th grade reading (62.3%) beats both district and state. Lake Elmo Elementary (697 students, grades PK–5) is the area's math standout: 59.8% proficient in math, above the district's 58% and well above the state's 44.9%, with 3rd grade math at 70.4% — the highest single grade-level value in the data — and 4th grade math at 65.1%. It ranks 285 of 869 elementary schools with 3 stars.
Pankalo Education Center (88 students, grades K–8) in Northeast Metro 916 is the clear outlier: a 64.77% free/reduced lunch rate and a 3.6 student-teacher ratio, with 2.3% math, 14.3% reading, and 8.3% science proficiency and a 1-star rank. Most of its grade-level scores are suppressed by the state, meaning they are unknown, not zero. Science is the shared weakness across the area: none of the three schools exceeds the state's all-grade science figure, and both Stillwater schools trail their own district in science. Oak-Land and Lake Elmo are also ranked within different school-type groups, so their rankings are not directly comparable.
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