Summary:
Zip code 56515 in Battle Lake, Minnesota contains a single elementary school: Battle Lake Elementary, which serves about 230 students in grades PK–6 and belongs to the Battle Lake Public School District. Because there is only one elementary school here, this is a single-school profile rather than a comparison among local options. Students attend a school with a 12.2 student-teacher ratio and a free/reduced lunch rate of 31.74%, and they are part of a district ranked 20th of 458 Minnesota districts — the 96th percentile, with 5 stars.
Battle Lake Elementary performs well above Minnesota averages across all tested subjects. In 2025–2026, 62.9% of students were proficient in math (state: 44.9%) and 67.4% in reading (state: 48.6%) — each roughly 18 percentage points above the state — while science came in at 31.6% (state: 25.5%), about 6 points above. Grade-level results show the biggest strengths in the upper grades: 5th grade reading reached 81.6% proficient (27.1 points above the state), 4th grade math 75.0%, and 5th grade math 65.8%. The softer spots within the school's own profile are 6th grade math at 45.8%, 4th grade reading at 56.3%, and science overall — all still at or above state averages.
Two trends are worth watching. The school's state rank moved from the 91st percentile in 2023–2024 to 89th in 2024–2025 and 84th in 2025–2026, with stars dipping from 5 to 4; it remains in the top 16% of ranked Minnesota elementary schools. Math fell 5.65 percentage points year over year — a steeper drop than the district's 3.5 points or the state's 0.31 points — and science declined 2.88 points, slipping from above the district average to 2.5 points below it. Reading was essentially flat at 67.4%. Note that science is tested in only one grade, so those results can swing more year to year. Overall, this is a strong, high-performing school whose recent math and science movement deserves monitoring.
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