Summary:
ZIP code 55073 in Scandia, Minnesota, is served by one public school, Scandia Elementary, an elementary school for grades PK–5 with 311 students in the Forest Lake Public School District. Because it is the only school in the ZIP, there are no within-ZIP comparisons, and families with older students would need to look outside the area for middle, high, or alternative schools.
Scandia Elementary is a consistent high performer: it earned 4 stars in each of the last three reported school years, improved its state rank from 190 of 881 in 2023–2024 to 153 of 869 in 2025–2026, and rose from the 78th to the 82nd percentile. Its district, Forest Lake Public School District, is ranked 172 of 458, at the 62nd percentile with 3 stars, so the school stands out within its district. In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency was 66.7% in Math, 60.9% in Reading, and 37.7% in Science, beating the state’s 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%, respectively. That is +21.8 points in Math, +12.3 in Reading, and +12.2 in Science versus the state.
Grade-level results show particular strengths in 5th grade: Math was 64.2% (state 41.9%, +22.3 points), Reading was 73.1% (state 54.5%, +18.6 points), and Science was 37.7% (state 25.9%, +11.8 points). Third-grade Reading was 51.4%, only +4.6 points above the state, so Reading performance strengthens in the upper grades. Year over year, all-grade Math rose slightly from 66.15% to 66.7%, Reading from 60.1% to 60.9%, and Science dipped from 38.46% to 37.7%, yet the school’s rank still improved. Context metrics for 2024–2025 show 18.65% free/reduced lunch and a student-teacher ratio of 18.1, but the data set does not provide district or state averages for those figures, so they cannot be judged as high or low from this record alone.
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