The top reported proficiency rate is 88% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Schumann Elementary
Schumann Elementary is a regular public school in Long Lake, Minnesota, part of the Orono Public School District. It serves children from prekindergarten through second grade, which means it is an early-primary school: students attend here for the youngest years and then move to a different building for third grade and beyond. The school enrolls a relatively large number of students for a school that ends at second grade, and the student body is drawn from the surrounding community, a small city on the eastern end of Long Lake in Hennepin County. Long Lake itself is a compact place, a mix of highway-front retail and residential streets, with a downtown corridor of local shops and a public library. US Highway 12 runs through town, and the lake that gives the city its name is a prominent feature. Housing in the area is expensive, with home values well above national medians and rents to match, which signals an affluent local market.
The student population is predominantly white. A modest share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the area’s high housing costs and income profile. Data on students with disabilities and English learners were not available in the records examined, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about its special education and language support programs. No information on chronic absenteeism, discipline rates, or staffing ratios was found either; the school’s early grade band may mean that some of these measures are not reported in the same way they would be for a full K-5 or K-8 school.
State testing results are available only from the 2004-05 school year, when Schumann still served third grade. At that time, proficiency rates on the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment were high in both math and reading. Those scores placed the school’s overall proficiency index in the top quarter of all schools relative to districts in Hennepin County. However, because the school now ends at second grade, those results come from a period when the school served a different grade range and are not a direct measure of its current academic program. The state does not test children in kindergarten through second grade with these assessments, so no more recent standardized test data exists for this school. A family interested in academic performance would need to look at the results from the elementary school that Schumann students feed into—likely Orono’s upper elementary building—to get a picture of later-grade achievement.
No graduation rate applies here because the school does not serve high school grades. The Orono district, which oversees Schumann, showed no major recent changes such as referendum campaigns, curriculum shifts, or boundary adjustments in publicly available records, so the district context appears stable.
For a family considering this school, the picture is one of an early-primary environment in an affluent lakeside community. The school itself is large for its grade span, drawing from a district where housing costs are very high and the student body is not economically diverse. The available test data is both old and from a grade the school no longer serves, so it offers limited insight into current instruction. The lack of recent state testing is a function of the grade band, not a weak result. Parents will want to visit, talk to the principal about early literacy and math programming, and ask about class sizes and support services, especially since the school’s own data on special populations and staffing was not on hand.
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