Big Hollow School District 38

Big Hollow School District 38 has three schools serving PK–8: Big Hollow Primary School (PK–1), Big Hollow Elementary School (2–4), and Big Hollow Middle School (5–8). The supplied 2025–2026 all-grades test results cover Elementary and Middle, but not Primary. Since the tested schools serve different grades, the results are useful school snapshots rather than direct comparisons of the same grades. The main takeaway is that academic strengths differ by subject: Middle led ELA at 65%, while Elementary led math at 40%.

Middle stands out in ELA: its 65% proficiency was 24 points above Elementary’s 41% and 9 points above the state’s 56%. Elementary had the stronger all-grades math result, at 40% versus Middle’s 33%; Elementary was about 1 point above the state, while Middle was 7 points below. Middle’s eighth-grade results are especially strong: ELA proficiency was 84%, 21 points above the state, and science was 72%, 20 points above. Results also vary within each school: Middle’s sixth- and seventh-grade math were 11 and 10 points below their state benchmarks, while Elementary’s third- and fourth-grade math were both below their grade-level state results.

Recent results and SchoolDigger rankings point to a more pronounced decline for Elementary: its ELA proficiency fell from 43% to 41% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while its SchoolDigger statewide percentile dropped from 50 to 29 over three years. Middle’s ELA rose from 62% to 65%, though its SchoolDigger percentile moved from 66 to 56 over the same three-year span; its fifth- and eighth-grade science results also rose by 12 and 11 points year over year. School profiles differ too: in 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios were 11.9 at Primary, 12.5 at Elementary, and 13.7 at Middle; free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 35%, 35%, and 33%, respectively. These figures describe different school profiles, not a cause of achievement differences.