Summary:
ZIP code 85329 has three elementary schools in Littleton Elementary District, and all serve students through grade 8: Fine Arts Academy and Lakin Prep Academy serve pre-K through grade 8, while LESD Online Academy serves kindergarten through grade 8. Among the two schools with reported all-grades results, average proficiency rounds to 22% in ELA and 10% in math, compared with state rates of 41% and 33%; the shortfalls are 19 and 24 percentage points, respectively. The most important area-wide finding is that both schools with reported results are substantially below state proficiency in both subjects.
Lakin Prep Academy leads the reported all-grades results, while Fine Arts Academy is lower on both subjects: Lakin scores 25% in ELA and 10% in math, versus Fine Arts’ 19% and 9%. Their gaps are modest next to the state shortfalls: Lakin is 16 points below the state in ELA and 23 in math; Fine Arts is 22 and 24 points below. Lakin also leads in every grade where both have ELA results, by 1–9 points—for example, 32% to 28% in grade 3 and 29% to 20% in grade 7.
The available rankings do not show a clear upward trend for Fine Arts: SchoolDigger places it in the 5th percentile in 2023–24, 2nd in 2024–25 and 5th in 2025–26; Lakin’s 2025–26 ranking is 794th of 900 schools, in the 12th percentile, compared with Fine Arts at 857th of 900, in the 5th percentile. There are some grade-specific exceptions: Fine Arts’ grade 5 math score of 19% is 1 point above the district rate, despite its all-grades math score being 8 points below; its science results are lower, at 15% in grade 5 and 12% in grade 8, versus state rates of 34% and 30%. LESD Online has no reported all-grades score, and its listed SchoolDigger ranking is from 2022–23, so it is not directly comparable with the other schools’ 2025–26 rankings.
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