Summary:
ZIP code 55325 in Dassel, Minnesota contains a single public school — Dassel Elementary — a PK–4 building of 364 students that belongs to Dassel-Cokato Public Schools. Because it is the only school in the ZIP, there are no middle or high schools locally, so families here move on to schools elsewhere after 4th grade. With just one school, the useful comparisons are the school against its district, against the state of Minnesota, between grade levels, and year over year.
The results are strong. In 2025-26, 78.9% of Dassel Elementary students were proficient in math — 34.0 points above the state's 44.9% and 15.5 points above the district's 63.4%. Reading proficiency was 62.2%, which is 13.6 points above the state's 48.6% and 3.2 points above the district. Only grades 3 and 4 take the state assessments, and math was consistently elite at both levels: 80.6% in 4th grade and 77.0% in 3rd grade. The school ranked 83rd of 869 ranked Minnesota schools in 2025-26 — the 90th percentile — and has held a 5-star rating in each of the three years of ranking history (97th percentile in 2023-24, 96th in 2024-25). Its district ranks 17th of 458 in the state.
Two things are worth watching. Reading proficiency fell 6.0 points year over year, steeper than the state's 1.0-point decline but close to the district's 5.1-point drop — suggesting a regional reading slide rather than a school-specific problem. Fourth-grade reading, at 62.5%, is also the only result in the data that trails the district (67.3%). Meanwhile, math now outpaces reading by 16.7 points at the school, up from 12.6 points, the opposite of the state, where reading scores above math. Notably, these outcomes come with a free/reduced-price lunch rate of 31.87% and a student-teacher ratio of 16.9 to 1.
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