Schools in Zip Code 57073

Zip code 57073 has one listed school, Irene - Wakonda Elementary - 02, serving prekindergarten through grade 6 with 161 students. In 2025–2026, 32% of students were proficient in ELA and 34% in mathematics, both below state rates. The most important finding is that the school’s ELA results were farther below the state benchmark than its mathematics results: 17 percentage points lower in ELA, compared with 10 points lower in math.

There is no school-to-school leader or trailing school in this one-school list; grade results show where performance varied most. Sixth-grade ELA was the clearest relative strength, at 44% proficient, 4 points below the state rate. Fourth-grade ELA was the weakest result, at 21%, 27 points below the state. In mathematics, fourth grade had the highest proficiency rate, 42%, while fifth grade had the lowest, 29%. The grade-to-grade spread was wider in ELA—23 points, from 21% to 44%—than in mathematics, where it was 14 points, from 29% to 42%.

Recent trends were mixed: ELA proficiency fell from 38% in 2024–2025 to 32% in 2025–2026, while the state rate declined from 51% to 49%, widening the school’s gap by 3 points. Mathematics was essentially steady relative to the state: the school rose from 33% to 34%, and the state from 43% to 44%. Fifth-grade science declined from 31% to 29% as the state rate rose from 41% to 41%, widening the gap by 4 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school 171st of 203 schools, in the 16th percentile, with 1 star. The student-teacher ratio was 12.1 in 2024–2025, and 35% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was comparatively low at 6%, versus 20% statewide, though above the district’s 3%.