Summary:
ZIP code 56046, which covers Lonsdale, Minnesota, has exactly one elementary school: Lonsdale Pre K-6, a PK–6 campus with 331 students in the Tri-City United School District. Because it is the only elementary school in the ZIP, parents should judge it against the district, the state, and its own past results rather than against a local peer school.
The school's clearest strength is early-grade math. Third graders scored 68.9% proficient in math, well above the district (56.7%) and state (57.9%), and fourth graders scored 51.2%, also above the district (42.3%). Fourth grade reading, at 46.3%, beat the district (39.2%). But those numbers fade in the upper grades: math drops to 35.1% in fifth grade and 22.2% in sixth, and sixth grade reading (39.1%) trails both the district (51.7%) and state (53.4%). Science, tested in fifth grade, is the lowest subject at 21.6%, below the district (23.6%) and state (25.5%). Reading is below the state at every tested grade, and overall reading (42.5%) trails the district and state. Overall math (44.6%) is roughly at the state level (44.9%) and above the district (38.1%), but that average hides the weak upper grades.
The trend line is the bigger concern. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, math fell 7.32 points and reading fell 7.50 points, far more than the district or state, and the school's rank slid from 348 of 881 (60th percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024 to 518 of 869 (40th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026. A year earlier, the school was above the state in math and reading; it now sits slightly below in math and clearly below in reading. Note that the reading test label changed from MCA-III to MCA-IV between years, so that comparison is not perfectly apples-to-apples. For context, 23.56% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch and the student-teacher ratio is 13.6. Test scores cover grades 3–6 in math and reading and grade 5 in science, not the full PK–6 enrollment.
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