Summary:
ZIP code 55403 has just one elementary school in this data: Emerson Elementary, a PK–5 school with 491 students in the Minneapolis Public School District. Because it is the only school in the ZIP, there are no side-by-side comparisons within the area — but it can be measured against its own district and against the state.
Academically, Emerson Elementary trails both its district and Minnesota overall in math and reading. In 2025–2026, all-grade math proficiency was 31.1% (district 37.1%, state 44.9%) and all-grade reading was 29.0% (district 41.8%, state 48.6%). Reading is the larger weakness, with 4th-grade reading at 16.7% — 26 percentage points below the district and 32.1 points below the state. Math is stronger in 3rd grade (39.1%) than in 4th (29.5%) or 5th (23.7%). The school holds a 1-star rating and ranked at the 19th percentile statewide in 2025–2026, below the district's 2-star, 32nd-percentile standing. It has stayed at 1 star for three years, though its percentile nudged up from 17 to 19.
Science is the bright spot. All-grade science rose from 11.69% to 21.9% year over year, a gain of more than 10 percentage points, and landed essentially even with the district average (21.7%) and only 3.6 points below the state (25.5%) — notable because science is tested only in 5th grade, so this reflects a single cohort. Math and reading gains were small, under 1 point each, and the school's math and reading gaps to the district widened slightly even as its gaps to the state narrowed. For context, the 2024–2025 free/reduced-lunch rate was 57.43%, and the student-teacher ratio of 11.3 is relatively favorable. Note that the lunch rate and ratio come from 2024–2025 while test scores are from 2025–2026.
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