Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 55066

ZIP code 55066 covers Red Wing, Minnesota, and includes four public elementary schools serving 931 students across mixed grade spans — K–1 and 2–4 buildings, a K–6 online school, and a PK–8 Montessori — under three districts. Because these schools serve different grade bands, and enrollments range from 22 to 493 students, test-score comparisons are directional rather than perfectly like-for-like. For 2025–2026, state all-grade MCA benchmarks are 44.9% in Math, 48.6% in Reading, and 25.5% in Science; a “—” means a value was suppressed for privacy, not that it was zero.

Creekstone Montessori is the academic standout. Its all-grade Science proficiency of 50% is roughly double the state’s 25.5%, and Grade 5 Science is also 50% versus the state’s 25.9%. Reading is near or above state in key grades, including 50% in 4th grade and 66.7% in 5th grade, and all-grade Reading was 51.06% in 2024–2025. Its rank climbed from the 23rd percentile to the 32nd to the 42nd, moving from 1 star to 2 stars, and Creekstone Montessori Charter sits at the 38th percentile with 2 stars. Math, however, lags at 34%. Burnside Elementary is the largest school at 493 students, about 53% of the enrollment, with Math at 37.7% — above its district’s 33.5% but 7.2 points under the state — and Reading at 31.5%, below both. Its rank fell from the 30th to the 27th to the 19th percentile, dropping from 2 stars to 1 star.

5RiversOnline Elementary enrolls just 22 students, so results are volatile and heavily suppressed; Math is 7.7% and Reading 30.8%, with Science not reported. Sunnyside Elementary (K–1) has no MCA scores listed, which is expected for that grade span, so it should not be judged on missing test data. Across the area, Math is a broad weakness — no reported school met the state’s 44.9% — while Reading splits the group, with Creekstone near or above state and Burnside and 5RiversOnline well below. Burnside and Sunnyside are in the Red Wing Public School District (21st percentile, 1 star), while 5RiversOnline belongs to the Goodhue County Education District, which has no district rank listed. Lower free/reduced-lunch rates at Creekstone (17.21%) accompany its stronger reading and science results, though that does not prove causation.