Summary:
Zip code 58438 has two schools in the Fessenden-Bowdon 25 district: Fessenden-Bowdon Elementary School, serving PK–8, and Fessenden-Bowdon High School, serving grades 9–12. The clearest difference is in current math and science: the elementary school’s results are substantially higher, while reading is a shared strength relative to state results.
Fessenden-Bowdon Elementary stands out in 2025–2026 math at 60–68%, compared with 20–49% at the high school—a gap of 11–48 points. Its science result is 70–88%, more than 30 points above the high school’s result of under 40%. The high school is the weaker of the two in these subjects, though its science result cannot be placed definitively above or below the state’s 39%. Reading is strong at both schools: elementary is 70–78% and high school 60–78%, both above the state’s 57%, but their ranges overlap. The high school also has a 94% graduation rate, 7 points above the state’s 87%.
Recent results show different paths: high-school math fell from 55% in 2024–2025 to 20–49% in 2025–2026, and science moved from 45% to under 40%; reading went from 75% to 60–78%, so the direction is not clear. SchoolDigger’s rankings also shifted: the high school went from 4th of 125 schools (97th percentile) to 83rd of 129 (36th percentile), while the elementary school improved from 92nd of 216 (57th percentile) to 51st of 216 (76th percentile). The schools’ reported context measures are similar: for 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students were 15.7% at elementary and 16.1% at high school, and student-teacher ratios were 11.6 and 11.0, respectively. These All Grades comparisons cover different grade spans.
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