Summary:
Calhoun CUSD 40 has two schools: Calhoun Elementary/Junior High School, serving pre-K through grade 8, and Calhoun High School, serving grades 9–12. The elementary/junior high enrolls 336 students and the high school 171. The clearest takeaway is that results vary considerably by grade and subject: elementary grades have some strong state comparisons, while high school results are mixed, with ELA a notable weakness.
Calhoun Elementary/Junior High School stands out in particular grades: third-grade math proficiency was 82%, 33 points above the state, and fourth-grade ELA was 82%, 26 points above. Its all-grades ELA result was 5 points above the state, while all-grades math was about even. Results were less strong in eighth grade: ELA was 12 points below the state and math 9 points below. At Calhoun High School, grade 11 ACT science was slightly above the state, but ACT ELA was 10 points below; grade 9 PreACT Secure ELA was 29 points below. Attendance also differs: chronic absenteeism was 10% at the elementary/junior high and 25% at the high school, with the high school above both the district and state figures.
Recent trends are mixed rather than moving consistently in one direction. Elementary/junior high all-grades ELA improved its position relative to the state by 12 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while math slipped by 2 points; high school ACT ELA’s gap widened by 8 points, though its relative ACT math result improved by 2. SchoolDigger lists the elementary/junior high at the 66th percentile and the high school at the 34th percentile in 2025–2026. Student–teacher ratios are similar, at 11.2 and 11.4. Both schools report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025: 42% at the elementary/junior high and 34% at the high school; these are context, not explanations for the results.
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