Best Public Schools in Zip Code 55932

ZIP code 55932 is home to two schools — Plainview-Elgin-Millville 4-5 (elementary, grades 4–5, 315 students) and Plainview-Elgin-Millville Middle (grades 6–8, 235 students) — both part of the Plainview-Elgin-Millville district, with no high school or alternative school in the area, so students continue elsewhere after 8th grade. The two schools share the same district rating: rank 101 of 458, 78th percentile, 4 stars. Their context differs a bit — free/reduced lunch is 34.6% at the elementary school versus 37.45% at the middle school, and student-teacher ratios are 15.9 and 18.0.

In 2025–2026, the elementary school beat the state in all three all-grade subjects — Math 51.1% vs 44.9%, Reading 53.7% vs 48.6%, Science 31.6% vs 25.5% — and outperformed the middle school in each. The middle school's all-grade Math was 40.0%, below both the district (48.7%) and state (44.9%), while its Reading (51.6%) stayed above the state. Its all-grade Science of 16.3% matches its 8th-grade score, essentially level with the state's 8th-grade Science of 16.7%. Grade-level results vary sharply: the elementary school's 5th grade is strong (Math 56.8% vs 41.9%, Reading 66.3% vs 54.5%, Science 31.6% vs 25.9%), but its 4th grade trails the state in Math (45.3% vs 55.2%) and Reading (41.1% vs 48.8%). At the middle school, 8th-grade Math (52.6% vs 42.3%) stands out, and Reading is above state at all three middle grades.

Both schools have slipped in the rankings: the elementary school went from 75th percentile with 4 stars in 2023–2024 to 63rd percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026, and the middle school fell from 84th percentile with 4 stars in 2024–2025 to 68th percentile with 3 stars. Math declined at both, but the middle school's drop was far sharper (52.49% to 40.0%) than the elementary school's (53.29% to 51.1%); the district fell 4.39 points while the state fell only 0.31, making the middle school's decline an outlier. Reading stayed fairly stable and above state at both, and Science improved at each. Because rank percentiles are calculated within school type using different comparison groups, they shouldn't be used alone to compare these two schools.