The top reported proficiency rate is 66% in Math. The lowest is 61% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Washington Elementary
Washington Elementary in Crookston serves the youngest students in the Crookston Public School District, offering pre-kindergarten and kindergarten only. This means that for most academic measures applicable to older grades, including graduation rates and state testing beyond the third grade, the school sits outside that data. Third-grade state test results from one past year do show a proficiency rate well above what is typical for a Polk County school, placing the school in the top quartile relative to other district-level results in the county. That single snapshot is from a prior decade, however, and no more recent assessment results are available in the record, which means a parent looking for a current academic profile will find little beyond that older data point.
The student body is small and composed entirely of four- and five-year-olds in pre-K and kindergarten. The enrollment is predominantly white, with a Hispanic population of about one-fifth of students. Small numbers of American Indian, Black, Asian, and multiracial students are also represented. Just under three-fifths of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a share that places economic need as a central fact of the school community. Data on students with disabilities and English learners are not available in the record.
Crookston itself is a small county-seat city in the Red River Valley, about a 25-mile drive from Grand Forks, North Dakota. The local economy is tied to agriculture, including sugar beet refining and sunflower processing, along with manufacturing and the University of Minnesota Crookston campus. The city has a historic downtown, a newly renovated public library, a sports center, parks, and the Agassiz Recreational Trail. Its population has shown a gradual decline over recent decades, and the search for new housing development or major construction projects did not surface any specific plans. The University of Minnesota Crookston, which began as an agricultural high school, now enrolls four-year and online students, adding a college presence to the town.
Because Washington Elementary only covers pre-K and kindergarten, it does not produce a graduation rate, an ACT average, or advanced coursework data. There is no record of programs such as art, music, or physical education in the data provided. The school is a regular public school and is not a charter or magnet. Information on discipline, staffing, attendance, and chronic absenteeism is absent from the record, so a parent cannot assess those dimensions from this report.
The district itself, the Crookston Public School District, did not have any recent parent-relevant changes surfaced in the search, meaning no bond referendums, boundary shifts, or leadership overhauls were found. The school’s building is located on University Avenue, a short distance from downtown Crookston and the university campus.
For a family considering Washington Elementary, the core question is about early childhood education in a small, economically mixed setting where the data on academic performance is thin and dated. The school fits a family looking for a neighborhood-based pre-K and kindergarten in a stable rural county-seat town with a university presence. A parent who wants to see current test scores, teacher qualifications, or class size data will need to ask the school directly, as none of that is available in this record.
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