Summary:
ZIP code 55395 contains just one elementary school — Winsted Elementary, a prekindergarten-through-4th-grade school with 213 students in Winsted, Minnesota, part of the Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted district. Roughly 4 in 10 students (39.91%) qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.8. Because it is the only school in this ZIP, there is no side-by-side school comparison to make; the meaningful comparisons are school versus district, school versus state, and year-over-year trends.
Winsted's profile pulls in two directions. School-wide math proficiency is 49.4% — above the state's 44.9% and a full 16.4 points above the district's 33.0%. Reading is the opposite story: 39.2%, which is 6.0 points below the district's 45.2% and 9.4 points below the state's 48.6%. Grade-level results explain much of this. Third-grade math is 57.1%, essentially matching the state at 57.9%, while 4th-grade math is 40.5%, 14.7 points behind the state. In reading, 3rd grade sits at 31.0% — 15.8 points under the state — while 4th grade is 48.6%, effectively level with the state's 48.8%. That pattern points to class-specific strengths and gaps rather than a school-wide weakness in either subject.
Trends are encouraging but bumpy. Math climbed 6.87 points year over year while the district was essentially flat and the state edged down; reading gained 3.57 points while both district and state declined. Even so, the school's state ranking has swung from the 46th percentile in 2023–24, down to 29th in 2024–25, and back to 37th in 2025–26 — 2 stars and 551st of 869 schools. Because only grades 3 and 4 take the state tests, each tested class is small, so a handful of students can shift school-wide percentages by several points. Parents should read any single year's results with that caveat in mind.
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