Summary:
ZIP code 55372 covers Prior Lake, where four elementary schools serve roughly 1,900 students in kindergarten through fifth grade: WestWood Elementary, Jeffers Pond Elementary (which also offers preschool), La Ola Del Lago at Grainwood, and Five Hawks Elementary. All four belong to Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools, a district ranked 76th of 458 statewide with a 4-star rating, and all four are similar in size, ranging from 454 to 505 students.
The two standouts are Jeffers Pond and La Ola Del Lago, both rated 5 stars. Jeffers Pond posts the highest math (68.6%) and science (46.4%) results in the group and ranks 74th of 869 schools (91st percentile), while La Ola Del Lago leads in reading at 71.6% and ranks 87th of 869 (90th percentile). WestWood is solid but unremarkable — 4 stars, 196th of 869 (77th percentile), with math, reading, and science all comfortably above state averages. Five Hawks trails the group with the lowest reading (53.8%) and science (25.0%), the only result here that does not beat the state; it is rated 3 stars and ranks 277th of 869 (68th percentile), still above the state median.
Science separates these schools far more than math does: a 21.4-point spread versus just 5.6 points in math. Fifth grade is a shared pressure point, with math dropping at every school, while reading tends to climb with grade level. The group also splits cleanly in momentum — Jeffers Pond and La Ola Del Lago improved in all three subjects year over year, while WestWood and Five Hawks declined in all three. Lower-income enrollment and class size do not line up neatly with results here, so the clearest signals are science performance, early-grade reading at Five Hawks, and fifth-grade math.
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