Osseo Public School District

Osseo Public School District enrolls 20,776 students across 34 schools in Minnesota. Thirty of those schools carry ratings, averaging 6.6 out of 10. That number gives parents a useful starting point, but the real story here is range — the distance between Osseo's top-rated schools and its lowest-rated ones is substantial, and where a child lands within the district shapes the educational experience significantly.

The district's strongest showing comes from its elementary schools. Cedar Island Elementary leads with an 8.7 out of 10, the highest rating in the district. Fair Oaks Elementary and Elm Creek Elementary both score 8.6. Fernbrook Elementary comes in at 8.4, and Rush Creek Elementary rounds out the top five at 8.3. Five schools scoring above 8.0 in a single grade band is a meaningful concentration — it signals that Osseo's entry-level programs, at their best, deliver strong outcomes for young students.

Cedar Island's 8.7 sits more than two points above the 6.6 district mean. That gap matters. The same district name can mean a fundamentally different school depending on which building a child attends. Parents with any flexibility in their attendance zone should treat the school-level rating as the primary input — not a detail to stack on top of the district average, but the first number to check.

At nearly 21,000 students across 34 schools, Osseo carries the scale of a large district. The top elementary schools here are genuinely strong; the wider portfolio is more mixed, which is what pulls the district-wide average down to 6.6 across 30 rated schools. The data rewards parents who look past the top-line figure. Check the specific school, check the specific attendance zone, and let the school-by-school ratings do the comparative work.