Summary:
ZIP code 57059 has two elementary schools: Scotland Elementary - 02, serving pre-K through grade 4 with 114 students, and Dawson Colony School - 20, serving kindergarten through grade 8 with 34 students. Both schools’ 2025–2026 all-grades results were above the state in ELA and math, and both reported chronic absenteeism far below the state’s 20%: 1% at Scotland and 0% at Dawson. Most importantly, Dawson had the higher reported all-grades results in both subjects.
Dawson Colony School - 20 stands out at the top, with 78% proficient in ELA and 72% in math, compared with 50% and 63% at Scotland Elementary - 02. Dawson’s leads were 28 percentage points in ELA and 10 points in math. Both schools were above state results—49% in ELA and 44% in math—but Scotland’s ELA result was only 1 point above the state, while its math result was 19 points above it. Scotland’s reported grade 3 and 4 results were above the state in both subjects; its largest margin was 14 points in grade 4 math. Neither school has a reportable 2025–2026 science result. The schools serve different grade spans, so their all-grades results are not a same-grade comparison.
The results changed in opposite directions: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Scotland’s ELA fell 16 points and math fell 3, while Dawson’s ELA rose 20 points and math rose 14. SchoolDigger’s ranking history also differs: Scotland moved from the 39th percentile and 2 stars in 2023–2024 to the 85th percentile and 4 stars in 2024–2025, then the 63rd percentile and 3 stars in 2025–2026; Dawson’s supplied history shows the 88th percentile and 4 stars in 2024–2025. For context, the student-teacher ratios were 13.9 at Scotland and 9.8 at Dawson in 2024–2025. Scotland’s free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 27% in 2024–2025; Dawson’s was 12% in 2022–2023, so these figures are from different school years.
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