Summary:
ZIP code 56549 is home to two elementary schools — Hawley Elementary serving PK–6 and Spring Prairie Elementary serving K–6 — both part of the Hawley Public School District, together enrolling 605 students.
Hawley Elementary is by far the larger and higher-performing of the two, enrolling 579 students, or roughly 96% of the area's elementary students. It earns 5 stars and ranks 45 of 869 schools statewide (95th percentile), holding 5 stars for a second straight year after 4 stars in 2023–2024. In 2025–2026 its all-grades scores beat both district and state averages: math 76.1% (district 66.9%, state 44.9%), reading 68.4% (district 64.4%, state 48.6%), and science 43.4% (district 35%, state 25.5%). Every reported grade-level score is above the state average, from a high of 86.7% in 4th grade math to a low of 58.1% in 3rd grade reading. Math dipped slightly from 79.07% the year before, while reading and science held steady.
Spring Prairie Elementary is very small, with just 26 students, and serves a different population: 88.46% qualify for free or reduced lunch versus 16.93% at Hawley, and its student/teacher ratio is 8.6 compared with Hawley's 15.5. Its published results are limited. Reading is 53.8% — above the state's 48.6% but below the district's 64.4% — while math is 30.8%, below both. Science and most grade-level results are suppressed by the state to protect student privacy, so those blanks mean "unknown," not weak performance. Both schools share a district rank of 19 of 458 (96th percentile, 5 stars), but that is a district-level rating and should not be read as a school-specific score for Spring Prairie.
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