Summary:
ZIP code 56672 contains just one elementary school: Northland Elementary in Remer, Minnesota, which serves grades PK–5 with 185 students and belongs to Northland Community Schools. Because it is the only elementary school in the area, families here have no other local public elementary option, and there is nothing to compare it against within the ZIP code. Its context is a small, high-need enrollment: 185 students, a favorable 8:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025, and 77.3% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch.
Academically, the school has been a 1-star school for three consecutive years (2023–2024 through 2025–2026), ranking in the 11th–15th percentile of Minnesota schools each time — a consistent pattern rather than a single bad year. In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency was 16.9% in math, 22.1% in reading, and 10.8% in science, against state averages of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. That puts the school 28.0 points below the state in math, 26.5 points below in reading, and 14.7 points below in science, with every subject below half the state average. Grade-level results vary widely: 3rd grade math and reading were both reported at 0%, while the strongest result was 5th grade reading at 32.4% — still 22.1 points below the state.
A notable shift appeared in 2025–2026: the school had been above its own district in math and science in 2024–2025, but fell below the district in all three subjects the following year. Reading dropped 8.76 points and science 8.25 points year over year, steeper than the district's or the state's changes, while math declined 4.09 points even as the district improved slightly. The district itself ranks 380th of 458 districts, at the 17th percentile with 1 star. In short, this is a small school with a relatively low student-teacher ratio but persistently low proficiency, large gaps to state averages, and recent declines below its own district — with the 0% 3rd grade math and reading results the most urgent signal.
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