Summary:
ZIP code 55790 has one elementary school, Tower-Soudan Elementary, serving grades PK–6 as part of St. Louis County School District; it enrolls 95 students, has a 58.95% free/reduced lunch rate, and a 10.9 student/teacher ratio. The available data include MCA-III Math and MCA-IV Reading/Science results for 2025–2026, All Grades results for 2024–2025, and state rank history for 2022–2023, 2024–2025, and 2025–2026. State privacy suppression leaves 6th grade Math and Reading in 2025–2026 and All Grades Science in 2024–2025 unknown; those values are not zero or evidence of failure.
Tower-Soudan is showing improvement. Its state rank percentile rose from 20 in 2022–2023 to 23 in 2024–2025 to 33 in 2025–2026, reaching 583 of 869 with 2 stars, up from 1 star in the prior two reported years. All Grades Reading increased from 37.84% in 2024–2025 to 42.2% in 2025–2026, moving above the district’s 40.8% but still below the state’s 48.6%. All Grades Math was 40.9%, above the district’s 31.7% by 9.2 points but below the state’s 44.9%. Fourth grade is a bright spot: Math 46.2% vs district 37.9%, and Reading 42.9% vs district 35.0%.
Science is the clearest weak area: All Grades Science was 16.7%, slightly below the district’s 17.1% and below the state’s 25.5%. Fifth grade was also weak across subjects—Math 30.8%, Reading 38.5%, Science 16.7%—and 6th grade Math and Reading are suppressed. Because the school has only 95 students in PK–6, grade-level percentages can swing sharply from year to year. Overall, this small, high-poverty rural school has a favorable student/teacher ratio, math and reading generally above the district but below the state, and an improving statewide rank; priorities appear to be science, 5th grade achievement, and closing the remaining gap to state averages.
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