Summary:
Zip code 57350 has five elementary schools in Huron School District 02-2, serving students from kindergarten through grade 8: Buchanan K-1 Center, Madison 2-3 Center, Washington 4-5 Center, Riverside Colony Elementary and Huron Colony Elementary. Together they enroll 1,428 students, with school sizes ranging from 16 to 474. The clearest current-year academic bright spot is Washington: it exceeded district results in every reported grade 4 and 5 subject and in all-grades ELA and math, although it remained below the state in every reported subject.
Washington’s all-grades results were 42% proficient in ELA and 36% in math, about 3 and 2 points above the district, but 7.2 and 7.4 points below the state. Madison was close to the district in grade 3, at 18% in ELA and 21% in math, yet trailed the state by 26 and 31 points. The colony schools’ current-year scores were suppressed; for 2024–2025, SchoolDigger ranked Riverside 279th of 300 and Huron 292nd of 300, with zero stars for both. Because the schools serve different grades and the colony schools’ 2025–2026 scores were suppressed, the available results do not support a complete same-grade ranking of all five.
Recent trends differ between the larger centers: Madison’s grade 3 ELA fell 6 points and math fell 2 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while its state gaps widened in both subjects. Washington’s all-grades ELA fell about 1 point and math was nearly unchanged; its 5th-grade science rose 5 points, and the state gap narrowed in ELA and science. Attendance also sets Washington apart: chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 14%, versus 23% at Madison and 25% at Buchanan; the state rate was 20%. For 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 72% at Madison, 72% at Washington and 70% at Buchanan. Student-teacher ratios were 16.9 at Madison and 16.1 at both Washington and Buchanan. These measures offer context for comparing schools, but do not explain differences in results.
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