Summary:
ZIP code 55963 is home to a single elementary school: Pine Island Elementary, which serves grades PK–4 with 610 students and belongs to the Pine Island Public School District. Because there is only one elementary school in this area, there are no local peers to compare it against, so the most useful benchmarks are the school's own year-over-year trend, its district, and Minnesota state averages.
Test results are strong. In 2025–2026, 74.6% of students were proficient in math and 61.6% in reading, compared with 52.6% and 55.8% in the district and 44.9% and 48.6% statewide. That puts the school 22.0 points above the district and 29.7 points above the state in math, and 5.8 and 13.0 points above them in reading. Results hold up at each grade level: 3rd grade math is 73.8% and 4th grade math 75.4%, while 3rd grade reading is 61.0% and 4th grade reading 62.3% — all well above state figures. Notably, math outpaces reading here, the opposite of the district and state pattern. The school also improved while others slipped: reading rose from 56.71% to 61.6% and math from 72.73% to 74.6%, even as district and state reading declined.
The school's statewide standing has improved as well. It ranked 108 out of 869 Minnesota elementary schools in 2025–2026 — the 88th percentile, or roughly the top 12% — up from the low 150s and 82nd–83rd percentile in the two prior years, earning 4 stars each time. The district ranks 81 of 458 at the 82nd percentile with 4 stars. Contextual indicators are also favorable: 19.02% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch and the student-teacher ratio is 13.2.
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