Summary:
The four schools in zip code 93242 serve kindergarten through grade 12 and enroll 603 students: Laton Elementary (K–5), Laton Middle (grades 6–8), Laton High (grades 9–12), and Laton Online Academy (K–12). In 2025–2026, the three schools with reported results averaged 39% proficient in ELA, 14% in mathematics, and 19% in science, compared with state rates of 49%, 38%, and 36%. The clearest area-wide concern is mathematics: the average was 24 percentage points below the state, a larger gap than in science or ELA.
Laton High stands out in ELA at 55% proficient, 5 points above the state and about 24 points above the average of Laton Elementary and Laton Middle, each at about 31%. But Laton High had the lowest all-grades math result, 9%, and was 29 points below the state. Laton Middle led in science at 26%, though still 10 points below the state; its eighth-grade ELA result, 48%, was only about 2 points below the state. Laton Elementary had the highest math result at 18%, just 1 point above Middle. Middle also had the lowest traditional-school chronic absenteeism rate: 6%, versus 18% statewide.
ELA improved at all three reporting schools from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: High gained 28 percentage points, Elementary 6, and Middle 3. Their equal-school average rose 12 points while the state rate barely changed; in contrast, the math average fell 3 points and its gap with the state widened by 4. SchoolDigger rankings also moved upward from 2023–2024 to 2025–2026: Elementary rose from the 11th to the 15th percentile, Middle from the 21st to the 26th, and High from the 31st to the 41st. For 2024–2025, student–teacher ratios ranged from 12.4 at High to 18.2 at Elementary. All four schools reported that 75% to 88% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025. Because schools serve different grade spans, all-grades comparisons are descriptive rather than like-for-like, and the online academy’s test results are suppressed.
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