Summary:
ZIP code 56220 covers Canby, Minnesota, and contains two public schools serving about 604 students in the Canby Public School District: Canby Elementary for grades PK–6 (304 students) and Canby Secondary for grades 7–12 (300 students).
Canby Elementary is the academic standout, earning 3 stars in each of the last three reported years and ranking 293 of 869 Minnesota elementary schools in 2025–2026 (66th percentile). Its all-grade proficiency is above the state in Math (55.8% vs 44.9%) and Reading (58.3% vs 48.6%), while Science trails the state at 20.6% vs 25.5%. Early grades are especially strong — 3rd grade Math at 87.2% vs 57.9% statewide and 4th grade Math at 70% vs 55.2% — but 5th and 6th grade Math dip below the state (32.4% vs 41.9% and 32.6% vs 39.5%).
Canby Secondary is a completion standout: a 96.3% graduation rate versus the state's 84.9%, and a 0.0% dropout rate versus 4.2%. Its academic proficiency, however, trails the state in Math (23.9% vs 44.9%), Reading (40.4% vs 48.6%) and Science (10.1% vs 25.5%), with 8th grade Science at just 3.8%. Secondary Science also fell sharply year over year, from 31.65% in 2024–2025 — above that year's state figure of 26.15% — to 10.1% in 2025–2026. The school improved from 1 star to 2 stars (31st percentile) but remains behind the elementary school's 3 stars. The district's overall rank of 257 of 458 (44th percentile, 2 stars) blends these two very different profiles.
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