Summary:
Princeville CUSD 326 has two schools serving Princeville students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Princeville Elementary School (PK–5, 292 students) and Princeville High School (grades 6–12, 350 students). In 2025–2026, both schools’ equal-school average IAR results were above the state: about 63% in ELA versus 56% statewide, and 61% in math versus 40% statewide. The clearest strength across the schools is math, where the average advantage over the state was 21 percentage points, compared with 7 points in ELA.
Princeville High School led the two schools in all-grades results: about 69% were proficient in ELA and 70% in math, compared with 58% and 51% at Princeville Elementary School. Those are school-to-school gaps of 10 points in ELA and 19 in math. Grade 8 was a particular high-school strength, with 84% proficient in ELA and 86% in math—21 and 52 points above state results. The elementary school’s grade 3 math result was 63%, 14 points above the state. Chronic absenteeism was below the state rate at both schools: 8% at the high school and 10% at the elementary school, versus 24% statewide.
Recent changes were mixed: elementary all-grades ELA rose 15 points, from 44% to 58%, while high-school ELA fell 3 points, from 71% to 69%; math increased at both, by 5 points at the elementary school and 3 at the high school. Results also have exceptions: high-school grade 6 ELA was just below the state, while elementary grade 4 math was 1 point below. For added context, 2025–2026 SchoolDigger rankings placed the high school 62nd of 620, in the 90th percentile with five stars, and the elementary school 716th of 1,737, in the 59th percentile with three stars. In 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios were 12.3 and 12.0, respectively; free/reduced lunch eligible was 37% at the high school and 34% at the elementary school. These figures describe context, not reasons for the score differences.
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