Summary:
Zip code 55373 has just one elementary school, Rockford Elementary Arts Magnet, a PK–4 school serving 599 students in the Rockford Public School District.
Because it is the only elementary school in the area, there are no local peers to compare it against, so the useful benchmarks are the district and the state. Math is this school's clearest strength: in 2025–2026, 55.7% of students were proficient in math at all grades, compared with 44.9% statewide and 38.6% in the district — about 10.8 points above the state and 17.1 points above the district. The prior year was also strong at 51.75%, and math improved by roughly 3.95 points year over year. Reading is more mixed: all-grade reading was 48.7%, essentially tied with the state's 48.6% and 2.1 points below the district's 50.8%, though it did edge up from 47.81% the year before. Looking at grade levels, fourth graders outperformed the state in both subjects (math 56.1% vs. 55.2%; reading 51.3% vs. 48.8%), while third graders trailed slightly (math 55.4% vs. 57.9%; reading 46.3% vs. 46.8%).
The school's overall trajectory is upward. Its rank climbed from 498th of 881 in 2023–2024, to 444th of 872 in 2024–2025, to 384th of 869 in 2025–2026, lifting it from the 43rd to the 56th percentile and from 2 stars to 3 stars. That places it above the median among ranked Minnesota elementary schools. By comparison, the district ranks 139th of 458 districts statewide, at the 70th percentile with 3 stars — though these are different ranking pools, so the comparison is not exact. For context, the school reports a 34.22% free/reduced-lunch rate and a 16.2 student/teacher ratio in 2024–2025, which works out to roughly 37 teachers for its 599 students. Overall, this is a solidly above-average school with a positive trend, driven especially by math.
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