Summary:
ZIP code 56378 is served by a single elementary school, Sauk Centre Elementary, a public PK–4 school with 368 students in the Sauk Centre Public School District. It sits on State Rd in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, and reported a favorable 10:1 student–teacher ratio alongside a 41.03% free/reduced-price lunch rate in 2024–2025. Because it is the only elementary school in this ZIP code, families here have one option for these grades, and its results are the clearest picture of early elementary academics in the area.
The school's profile is split between subjects. Math at the all-grades level was 45.7% proficient in 2025–2026, above the district's 40.1% and slightly above the state's 44.9%; the prior year it was also above both. Reading is the weak spot: all-grades reading was 35.3% proficient, below the district (37.4%) and well below the state (48.6%). The gap widens dramatically by grade level. Fourth graders performed close to state levels—51.5% in math (state 55.2%) and 47.8% in reading (state 48.8%). Third graders, by contrast, were at 40.3% in math (state 57.9%) and just 23.6% in reading (state 46.8%), the largest shortfall in the data. District grade-level results for grades 3 and 4 match the school's exactly, so they offer no separate comparison.
There are encouraging signs of movement. All-grades reading climbed 6.73 points year over year, from 28.57% to 35.3%, even while math dipped slightly from 46.81% to 45.7%. Statewide, the school rose from 639th of 872 schools (27th percentile, 1 star) in 2024–2025 to 609th of 869 (30th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026. Still, it remains in the lower third of Minnesota elementary schools, and reading—particularly third-grade reading—is the clear priority for families and staff tracking improvement.
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