Summary:
ZIP code 56377 covers Sartell, Minnesota, where three elementary schools — Oak Ridge Early Learning Center (PK–K, 288 students), Pine Meadow Primary School (grades 1–2, 489 students), and Riverview Intermediate School (grades 3–5, 914 students) — form a single PK–5 pathway inside the Sartell-St. Stephen School District, enrolling 1,691 students in total.
The district is the common strength behind all three schools: it ranks 32nd of 458 Minnesota districts, in the 93rd percentile with 5 stars. Riverview Intermediate School has the strongest current academic evidence. Its all-grades math proficiency is 65.4% versus 44.9% statewide, reading is 59.3% versus 48.6%, and science is 27.1% versus 25.5%. Fifth-grade math shows the widest margin, at 61.2% versus 41.9%. Reading rises across grades 3–5 (50.4%, 60.5%, 65.4%), while math declines (69.3%, 66.4%, 61.2%). Its 2025–2026 rank is 212 of 869 schools, in the 76th percentile with 4 stars — down from the 86th percentile in 2023–2024. Science also slipped from 31.17% to 27.1% year over year and trails the district's 33.2%.
Oak Ridge Early Learning Center has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 10.7, compared with 15.0 at Pine Meadow and 16.2 at Riverview, and was rated in the 91st percentile with 5 stars in 2018–2019. Pine Meadow Primary School peaked at the 95th percentile with 5 stars in 2016–2017, but that data is dated. Neither school has current test scores, since grades PK–2 are not tested. Free/reduced-lunch rates are close across all three: 25.56%, 24.65%, and 21.88%.
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