Summary:
ZIP code 55092 — the Wyoming, Minnesota area — has just two public schools, both elementary schools serving prekindergarten through 5th grade in the Forest Lake Public School District: Wyoming Elementary (447 students) and Linwood Elementary (400 students), enrolling 847 students combined. There are no middle or high schools in this ZIP. The two campuses look like near-twins on paper — same district, same grade span, nearly identical free/reduced lunch rates (23.71% vs. 24.5%) and similar class sizes (17.9 vs. 16.4 students per teacher) — which makes their performance differences worth a closer look.
Wyoming Elementary is the standout. It earned 4 stars and ranked in the 74th percentile statewide in 2025-26, the only 4-star school here. Its math proficiency of 70.2% is 25.3 points above the state — roughly 1.6 times the state rate — and science (36.1%) is 10.6 points above the state. Linwood Elementary is a steady 3-star school at the 61st percentile. Reading is where the two meet: 52.9% at Wyoming versus 52.6% at Linwood, a gap too small to be meaningful. Both schools beat their district and the state in math and reading.
The most striking pattern is math by grade. Linwood's math falls sharply as students get older — 71.2% in 3rd grade, 53.2% in 4th, and 35.7% in 5th, a 35.5-point decline and the weakest result in the data set. Wyoming's moves the other way: 63.5%, 74.1%, 72.1%. Wyoming's 5th grade is the strongest single cohort in the ZIP across all three subjects, though its 3rd and 4th grade reading trail the state. Keep in mind these are different students in each grade rather than the same children followed over time, and each grade represents a small group — so single-year swings deserve caution, while the larger gaps are the reliable findings.
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