Summary:
ZIP code 55387 covers Waconia, Minnesota, where seven public schools serve roughly 3,860 students across a single system, the Waconia Public School District — three elementaries (PK–5), one middle school (6–8), and three high-school settings (9–12). The district as a whole ranks 27th of 458 Minnesota districts (94th percentile, 5 stars), but that rating describes the district, not each individual school, and the school-level picture is more varied than the district number suggests.
The elementary and middle pipeline is the strength of the area. Laketown Elementary ranks 52nd of 869 Minnesota elementaries (94th percentile) and has held 5 stars for three straight years, posting the ZIP's best elementary math (74.9%) and reading (68.8%). Waconia Middle School ranks 32nd of 546 middle schools and beats the state by 19.5 points in math and 15.1 in reading. Southview Elementary and Bayview Elementary are essentially tied in state rank (137th and 136th of 869) but differ in profile — Southview is stronger in early math and reading, Bayview in science, with the smallest class sizes of the comprehensive schools. At Waconia High School, science proficiency (61.8%) is nearly double the state rate, and the graduation rate is 96.8% against 84.9% statewide.
The main caution is at the high school: its 11th-grade math (31.1%) and 10th-grade reading (37.0%) sit slightly below the state's same-grade figures. Science is also the weakest subject at the middle school and the two lower elementaries, so the pipeline underperforms in science before strengthening by the end of high school. Finally, Waconia Learning Center and Transitions 110 are very small programs (25 and 11 students) with suppressed or limited outcome data, so their results should not be compared directly with the larger schools.
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