Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 55923

ZIP code 55923 covers Chatfield, Minnesota, and contains exactly one elementary school: Chatfield Elementary School, a PK–6 building with 469 students in Chatfield Public Schools. Because there is only one school here, there are no in-area comparisons to make — instead, the school can be measured against its district and the state. It ranks 103rd of 869 Minnesota elementary schools in 2025‑26, placing it in the 88th percentile with a 4‑star rating, up from the 84th percentile three years earlier. Its district sits at the 83rd percentile (rank 78 of 458), also 4 stars. The school serves a moderate-poverty population, with 26.65% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and it has a favorable student–teacher ratio of 13.8 to 1.

Academically, the school is strongest in math and reading. In 2025‑26, 69.1% of students were proficient in math and 67.4% in reading, versus statewide rates of 44.9% and 48.6% — margins of about 24 and 19 percentage points. Math is roughly 1.5 times the state rate. Science is the exception: 27.7% proficient, only slightly above the 25.5% state rate and just below the district. One pattern stands out across grades: math proficiency starts very high in 3rd grade at 84.7% and 4th grade at 80.6%, then falls to 56.9% in 5th and 56.2% in 6th. Reading holds steady between about 68% and 72% in grades 3, 4, and 6, but dips to 58.5% in 5th grade.

For parents, the practical takeaways are straightforward. This is a consistently high-performing school in the top ~12% of the state, and it has been improving — math rose 5.9 points year over year, while reading and science were essentially flat. The main internal concern is the slide in math proficiency as students move from the early grades into 5th and 6th, where the school's advantage over the state narrows considerably. Grade 5 is the weakest cohort on every measure and carries the science result, since science is tested only in that grade. Finally, note that district-level averages understate this elementary school: the district's all-grades math figure (56.6%) is about 12.5 points below the school's, suggesting the district total includes grades beyond this building.