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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 58420


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Top rankedPingree-Buchanan Elementary School110th of 216 North Dakota elementary schools
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Pingree-Buchanan Elementary School up 14 spots statewide this year
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Summary:

Zip code 58420 has one listed school, Pingree-Buchanan Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through sixth grade and enrolling 102 students. With no other school in the zip code, the most useful comparisons are with North Dakota and across the school’s grade levels. The clearest finding for parents is the sharp contrast between sixth-grade results, well above state results, and fifth-grade results, below them in both math and reading.

Pingree-Buchanan’s sixth graders stand out most positively: math was 80–98%, at least 26 points above the state’s 54%, and reading was at least 90%, at least 33 points above the state’s 57%. Fifth-grade results were the weakest of these comparisons: math was 20–49%, at least 7 points below the state’s 56%, and reading was 20–49%, at least 9 points below the state’s 58%. Third-grade math was also above the state, at 60–78% versus 59%; fourth-grade reading was 30–59% versus 59%, ranging from below the state to level with it. For all grades combined in 2025–2026, the school’s math, reading, and science ranges each include the state result, so they do not establish a clear overall advantage or shortfall.

All-grade results were higher in 2025–2026 than in 2024–2025, but the ranges do not show that the school consistently gained ground relative to the state. Math rose from 34% to 50–58%, while the state rose from 41% to 54%; the school’s comparison shifted from 7 points below to 4 points below through 4 points above. Reading rose from 39% to 50–58%, while the state rose from 40% to 57%, leaving the direction of the relative change uncertain. SchoolDigger ranks the school 110 of 216 schools, in the 49th percentile with 3 stars, in 2025–2026, a modest recovery from 124 of 216 and the 43rd percentile with 2 stars the year before; in 2023–2024 it ranked 23 of 217, in the 89th percentile with 4 stars. The student-teacher ratio was 11.8 in 2024–2025, and 29% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. One data caveat: eighth-grade scores appear in the results despite the school’s listed PK–6 grade span.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction.

About North Dakota Assessment Data: To protect student privacy, the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction reports assessment results as percentage ranges rather than exact values. SchoolDigger calculates proficiency rates using midpoint imputation, which uses the center value of each reported range. For example, a reported range of 20-29% is represented as 24.5%. As a result, the proficiency rates shown may vary by approximately ±5 percentage points from actual values. This variance is most significant for individual grade/subject combinations and diminishes when data is aggregated across multiple grades or subjects.

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