Reading
65.1%
State avg 49.7%
District avg 55.0%
County avg 45.2%
District avg 55.0%
County avg 45.2%
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Minnesota schools by score · Renville County schools by score
MCA, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Meets or Exceeds Standards.Mathematics
75.6%
State avg 45.3%
District avg 50.7%
County avg 42.7%
District avg 50.7%
County avg 42.7%
Science
44.8%
State avg 28.4%
District avg 21.9%
County avg 25.8%
District avg 21.9%
County avg 25.8%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 76 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 45 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50, 45, and 28.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
64.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.9%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+27.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 38% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in Minnesota's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
By grade, SY 2024-25
School score vs state average per tested grade.| Grade | Reading | Mathematics | Science | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | |
| Grade 3 | 60.0% | 46.3% | 25 | 84.0% | 58.1% | 25 | 60.0% | 46.3% | 25 |
| Grade 4 | 65.5% | 46.4% | 29 | 78.6% | 55.8% | 28 | 65.5% | 46.4% | 29 |
| Grade 5 | 69.0% | 57.2% | 29 | 65.5% | 43.1% | 29 | 44.8% | 26.6% | 29 |
1-year history
All grades, all students. Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart Minnesota avgReading
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 65.1% | 55.0% | 45.2% | 49.7% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 75.6% | 50.7% | 42.7% | 45.3% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 44.8% | 21.9% | 25.8% | 28.4% |
How to read these scores
What is MCA?
Minnesota public-school students take the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment (MCA) each spring in Reading and Math (grades 3-8 + grade 10) and Science (grades 5, 8, and high school). MCA uses 4 performance levels: Does Not Meet, Partially Meets, Meets, and Exceeds Standards.
What does "% Meets or Exceeds Standards" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school whose scores were "Meets the Standards" or "Exceeds the Standards" on the MCA — the top 2 of 4 performance levels (Does Not Meet, Partially Meets, Meets, Exceeds). Meets and above is Minnesota's grade-level benchmark. A higher number is better.
What does 65.1% mean for Reading at Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart Element?
It means about 65.1 percent of students tested at Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart Element performed at grade level or above on the MCA Reading test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Minnesota that year was 49.7%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Minnesota, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment (MCA) + MTAS + Alternate MCA combined ("All Standards-Based"). School-level Percent Proficient from the MDE Assessment Files. Headline metric is the cumulative "Meets + Exceeds Standards" rate (top 2 of 4 MCA performance levels).
How often is it updated?
MCA is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.