Best Public Schools in Zip Code 55398

ZIP code 55398 covers Zimmerman, Minnesota, and includes four schools — two elementary, one middle, and one high school — that together serve about 2,302 students in a full K–12 pipeline, all within the Elk River Public School District, which ranks 37 of 458 districts statewide (92nd percentile, 5 stars).

The strongest performer on statewide rank is Zimmerman Middle, at 83 of 546 schools — the 85th percentile with 4 stars, up from the 80th percentile two years earlier — with all-grade math at 56.9% and reading at 52.9%, both above the state's 44.9% and 48.6%. Zimmerman High School is the largest school, with 704 students, and has the best graduation outcomes: a 94.5% graduation rate versus the district's 89.0% and the state's 84.9%, and a 3.3% dropout rate versus 3.7% and 4.2%. Its 10th-grade reading is 50.4% against the district's 46.1% and the state's 42.5%, and its science score is 45.3% against 39.6% and 35.0%. Westwood Elementary has improved steadily to 326 of 869, the 62nd percentile with 3 stars. Zimmerman Elementary serves grades K–2 and has no test-score or rank data, which is not applicable rather than a weakness.

Areas to watch: Zimmerman High School's 11th-grade math is 38.6%, above the state's 35.3% but below the district's 47.9%, and its all-grade math fell from 49.35% to 38.6%. Westwood Elementary's 5th grade is below the state in math, reading, and science, with science dropping from 32.22% to 21.4%. Zimmerman Middle's 8th-grade science, 19.3%, is above the state's 16.7% but below the district's 20.6%. Class sizes are largest at the high school, with a student-teacher ratio of 25.8 versus 20.6 at Westwood, 20.5 at the middle school, and 17.5 at Zimmerman Elementary.