Summary:
Jasper County CUD 1 includes four schools spanning PK through grade 12: two elementary schools, a junior high, and a high school. Results vary by school level: Newton Elementary School is above state results in its all-grades IAR scores, while Jasper County Junior High is below, especially in math. The most pressing achievement concern is the junior high’s math result: 26% proficient, 14 percentage points below the state.
Newton Elementary School stands out among the IAR schools, with 60% proficient in ELA and 48% in math, compared with 52% and 26% at the junior high. Against state results, Newton was 4 points higher in ELA and 8 points higher in math; the junior high was 5 points lower in ELA and 14 points lower in math. Newton Community High School pairs a 99% graduation rate with below-state proficiency in all three listed 11th-grade ACT subjects. Ste Marie Elementary School had 29% chronic absenteeism, above the state’s 24%, and has no test scores listed.
Recent trends are mixed: the two IAR schools’ average results rose by 6 percentage points in ELA and 2 points in math from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while all six reported PreACT Secure results at the high school declined. SchoolDigger’s latest ranking percentiles were 55 for Newton Elementary, 28 for the high school, and 28 for the junior high; Newton Elementary’s percentile fell from 70 the prior year, while the high school’s fell from 57. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares ranged from 40% at the high school to 50% at Ste Marie. Student-teacher ratios ranged from 12.8 at Newton Elementary to 18.8 at the junior high. Comparisons across schools are limited by different grade spans, and Ste Marie has no test scores in the data.
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