Schools in Zip Code 56377

ZIP code 56377 contains six schools serving pre-kindergarten through 12th grade — three elementary, one middle, one high, and one alternative — and five of them belong to the Sartell-St. Stephen School District, which ranks 32nd of 458 Minnesota districts (93rd percentile, 5 stars). Total enrollment is 3,955 students, with 3,943 in the Sartell-St. Stephen schools and just 12 at Benton-Stearns Education - ASD, a K–12 alternative school in the Benton-Stearns Education District. The Sartell schools form a clean grade pipeline from Oak Ridge Early Learning Center (PK–K) through Pine Meadow Primary School (1–2), Riverview Intermediate School (3–5), Sartell Middle (6–8), and Sartell Senior High (9–12).

Sartell Middle is the clear academic standout, ranked 25th of 546 Minnesota middle schools in 2025–2026 (95th percentile, 5 stars) after two prior 5-star years. Its math proficiency is 70.3% and reading 64.2%, well above both the district (64% and 59.8%) and the state (44.9% and 48.6%), though its science (26.4%) trails the district. Sartell Senior High is a study in contrasts: graduation is 95.7% and dropout just 0.9%, both far better than the state's 84.9% and 4.2%, and science proficiency is a strong 46.7%. Yet its math (40.6%) and reading (47.2%) fall below the district and, in math, slightly below the state, and its rank has slipped from 50th of 480 (90th percentile) to 92nd of 473 (81st percentile, 4 stars).

Riverview Intermediate School remains a 4-star school with math at 65.4% and reading at 59.3%, both above the state, but its percentile rank has declined from 86th to 76th over three years. Oak Ridge Early Learning Center and Pine Meadow Primary School serve PK–K and grades 1–2, so they have no current state test scores; their historical rankings were strong, and Oak Ridge has the lowest student-teacher ratio among Sartell schools at 10.7. Benton-Stearns Education - ASD is a very different setting, with 12 students, 75% free/reduced lunch, and a 6.0 student-teacher ratio; its school-level test scores are suppressed by the state and should be treated as unknown, not as evidence of poor performance.