Summary:
ZIP code 56024 contains just one elementary school: Eagle Lake Elementary, a K–5 school serving 270 students in Eagle Lake, Minnesota, as part of the Mankato Public School District. Because it is the only elementary school in the ZIP code, there are no local peers to compare it against, so the most useful benchmarks are the district, the state, and the school's own history. It earned 4 stars in each of the last three reported school years and ranked 146th of 869 Minnesota schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 83rd percentile.
Math is the school's standout strength. All-grade math proficiency was 77.6% in 2025–2026, well above the district's 55% and the state's 44.9%. The upper grades are especially impressive, with 4th-grade math at 87% and 5th-grade math at 84%. Reading is also above district and state overall at 61.2%, with 4th grade at 67.4% and 5th grade at 72%. Science, reported here for 5th grade, came in at 36%, above the district's 26.1% and the state's 25.9%, though it is the lowest of the three tested subjects.
The clearest area of concern is 3rd grade. Third-grade reading was 39.5%, below both the district (54.3%) and the state (46.8%), and third-grade math was 57.9%, equal to the state but 11.9 points below the district. Other context: enrollment is 270, 32.22% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 13.1. The school's statewide percentile has softened gradually, from 90th in 2023–2024 to 87th and then 83rd, and all-grade math slipped from 83.45% to 77.6% year over year, though it remains far above average.
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