Summary:
ZIP code 55395 has just one public school: Winsted Elementary, an elementary school serving grades PK–4 with 213 students in the Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted district. The area has 1 elementary school, 0 middle schools, 0 high schools, and 0 alternative schools, so all local school data for 55395 comes from this single campus. Its district rank is 269 of 458, or 41st percentile with 2 stars.
Winsted Elementary's 2025–26 results are mixed but improving. Math is a relative strength: all-grade math proficiency is 49.4%, above the district's 33% and the state's 44.9%. Reading is a relative weakness: all-grade reading is 39.2%, below the district's 45.2% and the state's 48.6%. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, math rose from 42.53% to 49.4% (+6.87 points) and reading rose from 35.63% to 39.2% (+3.57 points), while district and state results were roughly flat to down. Statewide, its rank improved from 616 of 872 (29th percentile, 1 star) to 551 of 869 (37th percentile, 2 stars), but that is still below its 2023–24 result of 46th percentile and below the statewide median.
Grade-level results vary sharply. Third-grade math is 57.1% versus 40.5% in fourth grade; third-grade reading is 31% versus 48.6% in fourth grade. Fourth-grade reading is essentially at the state level (48.6% vs. 48.8%), while third-grade reading is 15.8 points below the state. Fourth-grade math is 40.5%, 8.9 points below the district and 14.7 points below the state—the largest negative gap in the 2025–26 data. In 2024–25, 39.91% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch and the student-teacher ratio was 13.8:1. Overall, Winsted Elementary is a single-school ZIP code with above-average math, improving scores, and reading—especially 3rd-grade reading—as the main area to watch.
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