Summary:
The Heber Elementary area has two schools serving kindergarten through grade 8: Dogwood Elementary serves K–4, and Heber serves grades 5–8. Their latest reported results are for 2025–2026, and the all-grade scores cover different grade spans, so they are not a same-grade comparison. The clearest difference is mathematics: Dogwood is well above the state overall, while Heber’s all-grade result is below it, with Heber’s grade-level results changing sharply between grades 5–6 and 7–8.
Dogwood Elementary stands out in all-grade mathematics at 50%, 11 percentage points above the state and 14 points above Heber at 35%; Heber is 3 points below the state. The pattern within Heber is important: mathematics is 10 and 12 points below state results in grades 5 and 6, then 3 and 9 points above in grades 7 and 8. Heber leads in all-grade ELA, with 50% compared with Dogwood’s 47%; Heber is just above the state’s 49%, while Dogwood is 3 points below. Heber’s science result is 34%, 2 points below the state. Chronic absenteeism also differs: Dogwood’s 28% is 9 points above the state rate, while Heber’s 13% is 5 points below.
Recent score trends are mixed rather than consistent: Dogwood’s ELA fell 3 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while Heber’s rose 2; Dogwood’s mathematics was essentially flat, and Heber’s increased 1 point. Heber’s science rose 6 points, compared with a 3-point state increase. SchoolDigger rankings were similar and steady: Dogwood moved from the 60th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 63rd in 2025–2026, while Heber moved from the 60th to the 64th. Enrollment and student–teacher ratios are also fairly close: 606 students and 19.5 at Dogwood, versus 549 and 20.7 at Heber. Both report free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025: 71% at Dogwood and 69% at Heber; these figures provide context, not an explanation for score differences.
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