Summary:
ZIP code 56062 covers the Madelia area of Minnesota, and the supplied data contains just one elementary school there: Madelia Elementary, which is part of the Madelia Public School District. The school serves students in grades PK through 6 and enrolls 352 students. About 55.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is 12.6 to 1. Because it is the only elementary school in the ZIP code, there is no neighboring school to compare it with, so the most useful benchmarks are the district, the state, and the school's own results from the year before.
On 2025–2026 MCA tests, reading was the school's relative bright spot: 38.5% of students were proficient, essentially level with the district's 38.7% but 10.1 points below the state's 48.6%. The strongest grade-level results came in 5th grade reading at 42.6% and 6th grade reading at 42.2%. Math was weaker at 28.9%, below the district's 32.2% and 16.0 points below the state's 44.9%, with the lowest results in 5th grade math at 19.1% and 6th grade math at 23.9%. Science was the lowest subject overall at 17.0%, under the district's 21.3% and 8.5 points below the state's 25.5%. The school trails the state in every reported subject and grade level.
Year over year, math slipped from 35.79% to 28.9%, a drop of 6.89 points, while reading rose 1.66 points and science rose 3.05 points from 13.95%, narrowing its gap to the state. Even so, the school's ranking trend is downward: it fell from the 32nd percentile with 2 stars in 2023–2024, to the 30th percentile with 1 star in 2024–2025, to the 24th percentile with 1 star in 2025–2026. The district itself ranks 247th of 458, in the 46th percentile with 2 stars. Overall, reading is holding near district levels, science is low but improving, and math is the clearest area of concern.
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