Summary:
Porta CUSD 202 has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Petersburg Elementary School (PK–2), Porta Central (grades 3–6) and Porta High School (grades 7–12). In the supplied 2025–26 results, Central’s all-grades IAR proficiency is above the state in both ELA and math, while High’s is below, particularly in math. The clearest concern is High’s math performance: 22% proficient in all grades, 18 percentage points below the state, and 19% in seventh grade, 21 points below. Petersburg has no supplied test scores, and the two schools with scores serve different grades, so their results are not like-for-like comparisons.
Porta Central has the strongest supplied overall results: 60% proficient in all-grades ELA and 43% in math, each 3 points above the state. Its fourth-grade ELA is a standout at 71%, 15 points above state, and fifth-grade science is 67%, 19 points above. Porta High School is below state in all-grades ELA (52%, 4 points below) as well as math; however, eighth-grade science is 59%, 7 points above state, and 11th-grade ACT ELA is 53%, 3 points above. Attendance is favorable across the schools: chronic absenteeism is 13% at Central and Petersburg and 19% at High, all below the state’s 24%.
Recent score changes show improvement in some areas, not a uniform trend: High’s all-grades ELA rose from 40% in 2024–25 to 52% in 2025–26, while Central’s math rose from 33% to 43%; Central’s ELA slipped from 62% to 60%. Science also improved sharply in the reported grades: fifth-grade results at Central rose 30 points and eighth-grade results at High rose 33 points. SchoolDigger rates the district at 2 stars and ranks it 516th of 738; High’s SchoolDigger percentile fell from 55 to 40 between 2023–24 and 2025–26, while Central’s moved from 53 to 55. Student-teacher ratios are similar, from 12.2 at Central to 12.8 at High. All three schools report free/reduced lunch eligible (FRL) for school year 2024–2025: 31% at Petersburg, 41% at Central and 47% at High. High’s graduation rate is 92%, compared with 90% statewide.
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