Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 56537

ZIP code 56537 is home to six elementary schools serving 1,315 students, five of them in the Fergus Falls Public School District — ranked 198 of 458 Minnesota districts, or the 57th percentile with 3 stars — plus Lakes Country Academy - ALEX in the Region 4-Lakes Country Service Coop. Grade spans vary widely: Lincoln School serves PK–1, Adams Elementary and McKinley Elementary serve grades 1–3, Cleveland Elementary serves grades 4–5, and iQ Academy K-5 serves K–5. Enrollment ranges from just 7 students at Lakes Country Academy to 361 at Cleveland.

Cleveland Elementary is the strongest all-around performer, with 4-star rank history in the 77th–82nd percentile and 2025–2026 proficiency above both district and state in math (64.2), reading (57), and science (33.8) — the only school with reported science results that year. Adams Elementary posts the highest math score (67) but weaker reading (46.3, below district and state), along with the lowest reported FRL (35.43%) and the lowest student-teacher ratio among the standard schools (12.8). McKinley Elementary is solid in math (62.6), with reading (51.1) above state but below district. iQ Academy K-5 shows a dramatic split: the highest reported reading score (63.6) alongside math of 27.3, well below district and state.

Parents should compare cautiously, since the differing grade levels mean the "all grades" figures are not apples-to-apples. Several scores are suppressed by the state to protect student privacy — including all of tiny Lakes Country Academy's — and Lincoln School has no test data at all, so those blanks are unknown rather than zero. Adams and McKinley have rank history only from 2005–2006 and 2006–2007, while Cleveland's and iQ Academy's histories are recent. All five Fergus Falls schools share the same district rank, so the differences among individual schools are larger than the district summary alone suggests.