Summary:
Zip code 57020 has one listed school, Tri-Valley Elementary in Crooks – 04, serving kindergarten through grade 4 with 205 students. There is no meaningful school-to-school comparison within the area. In 2025–2026, the school’s strongest result was math: 55% of students were proficient, 11 percentage points above the state rate.
Tri-Valley Elementary has a mixed academic profile: all-grade ELA proficiency was 43%, 7 points below the state’s 49%, while math was 55%, 11 points above the state’s 44%. Grade-level results show the same contrast: third-grade ELA and math were below state rates by 8 and 6 points, respectively, while fourth-grade ELA was 2 points above and fourth-grade math was 17 points above. Fourth-grade math was the standout; third grade was below the state in both subjects.
Results moved in different directions from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA fell 7 points, from 49% to 43%, while math rose 4 points, from 51% to 55%. The SchoolDigger listing gives the school a 2025–2026 rank of 127th out of 203 schools, in the 37th percentile, with 2 stars; its prior listing was 141st out of 300, in the 53rd percentile, with 3 stars, but the different numbers of ranked schools make this an unclear year-to-year comparison. Other useful context includes a student–teacher ratio of 13.2 in 2024–2025 and 28% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch that year. Chronic absenteeism was 5% in 2025–2026, compared with 7% in the Tri-Valley School District 49-6 and 20% statewide.
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