Summary:
ZIP code 56364 in Pierz, Minnesota is home to a single elementary school: Pioneer Elementary, a public school serving grades PK–6 with 607 students as part of the Pierz Public School District. Because it is the only elementary school in the area, there is no in-ZIP comparison to make, so the most useful benchmarks are the district and the state of Minnesota.
Pioneer Elementary is a consistently high performer. It has earned 5 stars in each of the last three reported school years, ranking 68th out of 869 Minnesota elementary schools in 2025–2026 (92nd percentile), 51st out of 872 in 2024–2025 (94th percentile), and 57th out of 881 in 2023–2024 (94th percentile). By contrast, the district is rated 4 stars and sits in the 84th percentile. On 2025–2026 tests, math proficiency was 72.8% at the school versus 64.5% in the district and 44.9% statewide, and reading was 67.8% versus 55.1% district and 48.6% state. Science came in at 30.0%, above the district's 28.8% and the state's 25.5%, but by a much narrower margin.
Grade-level results show strength across the board. Every reported math and reading result in grades 3–6 exceeds the state by at least 11.5 points, with 4th-grade math highest at 83.1% and 5th-grade math showing the largest gap over the state at +30.6 points. Reading held essentially steady year over year (67.66% to 67.8%) while district reading fell about 9 points, and science dipped 3.67 points but still moved ahead of the district. With 30.48% of students qualifying for free/reduced lunch and a student/teacher ratio of 13.7, Pioneer pairs a sizable enrollment with staffing that appears manageable. Science is the clearest relative opportunity in an otherwise very strong profile.
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