Summary:
Zip code 55949 contains exactly one listed elementary school, Lanesboro Elementary, serving grades PK–6 with 249 students as part of the Lanesboro Public School District, so families here have one local public elementary option and the most meaningful comparisons are against the district and the state of Minnesota.
Lanesboro Elementary's clearest strength is math: 55.4% of students were proficient in 2025–26, versus 48.6% in the district and 44.9% statewide, and it beat both in reading (50.4% vs. 47.1% district and 48.6% state) and science (27% vs. 21.6% and 25.5%). Grade-level results show especially strong third-grade performance, with 76.5% proficient in math and 61.8% in reading, well above state figures of 57.9% and 46.8%, while fourth-grade math (66.7% vs. 55.2% state) is also above average. Its 2025–26 rank is 325 of 869, placing it in the 63rd percentile with 3 stars — its best showing in three years and an improvement from the 49th percentile and 2 stars in 2024–25. Science also rose sharply, from 12.5% to 27%.
Results are uneven by grade, however. Fourth-grade reading is notably below state — 33.3% proficient versus 48.8% — and sixth-grade math (31.3% vs. 39.5%) and sixth-grade reading (50% vs. 53.4%) also trail state averages, suggesting specific grade-level challenges rather than a schoolwide weakness. About 39.76% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–25, and the student-teacher ratio was 14.1. The Lanesboro Public School District ranks 195 of 458 districts, in the 57th percentile with 3 stars. Because Lanesboro Elementary is the only elementary school in zip code 55949, no in-zip peer comparison is possible; all test-score figures here are exact point percentages, with none suppressed or given as ranges, though the reading year-over-year change should be read with caution because 2024–25 reading was labeled MCA-III and 2025–26 reading MCA-IV.
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