Summary:
The three schools in Hickman Community Charter serve grades K–8: Hickman Charter serves K–8, Hickman Elementary serves K–5, and Hickman Middle serves grades 6–8. Results vary considerably across schools, particularly in math. The clearest school-to-school pattern is that, in every grade from 3–8, the school serving the same grades as Hickman Charter scores higher in both ELA and math.
Hickman Middle has the strongest all-grades ELA and science results, at 65% and 46%, while Hickman Elementary leads in math, at 57%. Middle’s ELA is 24 points above Charter’s 41%, and its science is 8 points higher; Elementary’s math is 31 points above Charter’s 26%. Elementary also leads Charter in each shared grade, by 17–25 points in ELA and 22–41 points in math. Middle leads Charter in grades 6–8 by 4–29 points in ELA and 14–34 points in math. Charter is below the state in all-grades ELA and math, while the other two schools are above the state in both; all three are slightly or substantially above the state in science.
Recent changes also differ by school: Elementary improved by 2 points in ELA, 2 in math, and 3 in science from 2024–25 to 2025–26; Middle gained 2 points in each subject. Charter fell 4 points in ELA and 1 in science, with math unchanged. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking percentiles rose from 72nd to 75th for Elementary and from 75th to 80th for Middle over three years, while Charter moved from 37th to 36th. Enrollment, ratios, and income measures offer context, not explanations: Charter has 647 students and a 24.6 student–teacher ratio; Elementary has 308 and 23.6; Middle has 141 and 20.6. For 2024–25, the free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 41%, 47%, and 36%, respectively. Because the schools serve different grade spans, grade-matched results are the fairest comparisons.
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