Summary:
Arthur CUSD 305 has four schools serving 925 students across PK–12: three elementary schools serving PK–8 and one high school serving grades 9–12. The clearest pattern is that elementary results vary sharply by school: Arthur Grade School and Atwood-Hammond Grade School are near or above the state in all-grades ELA, while Lovington Grade School is far below both them and the state.
Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond High School stands out in grade 11: its 2025–2026 ACT results were 60% in ELA, 51% in mathematics, and 51% in science, compared with state results of 50%, 40%, and 48%; its graduation rate was 98%, versus 90% statewide. Among elementary schools, Atwood-Hammond narrowly led all-grades ELA at 63.3%, just ahead of Arthur at 62.9%; Arthur narrowly led mathematics, 38% to Atwood-Hammond’s 38%. Lovington scored 31% in ELA and 21% in mathematics. Its ELA result was 32 percentage points below Atwood-Hammond’s and 25 points below the state; its math result was 17 points below Arthur’s.
Elementary ELA results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 at all three schools, while mathematics fell at each; the average ELA gap from the state narrowed from 5 to 4 percentage points, but the average math gap widened from 4 to 8 points. High-school trends were mixed: grade 11 ELA fell 9 points, while mathematics rose 5; grade 9 mathematics fell 8 points and science fell 28. SchoolDigger ranks the high school at the 65th percentile, Atwood-Hammond at the 55th, Arthur at the 48th, and Lovington at the 29th in their latest listed years; these are rankings, not test-score percentages. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligibility ranged from 47% at the high school to 72% at Lovington, and student-teacher ratios ranged from 9.7 at Lovington to 12.0 at Arthur; these figures do not explain the achievement differences.
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