Rankin Central School District 98

Rankin Central School District 98 has one listed school, serving kindergarten through grade 8, in the Rankin area. The most important finding is that grade 8 results stand out: in 2025–26, Rankin Elementary School was 31 percentage points above the state in ELA and 42 points above in mathematics.

With just one school, Rankin is technically both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in the district, but that is not a meaningful peer ranking. Compared with the state in 2025–26, the school’s all-grades ELA rate was 59%, 3 points higher, while its mathematics rate was 38%, 2 points lower. Grade-level results show a more mixed picture: grade 8 was 94% in ELA and 77% in mathematics, while grade 6 ELA was 7 points below the state. Because it is the only listed school, the data do not allow a school-to-school comparison within the district.

Results shifted toward the state in both all-grades subjects from 2024–25 to 2025–26: Rankin’s ELA lead narrowed from 9 points to 3, and its mathematics margin moved from 1 point above to 2 points below. Grade 5 science was a notable exception, rising 27 points to 50% as the state rate rose 7 points to 48%; Rankin moved from 18 points below the state to 3 points above. SchoolDigger rates Rankin 3 stars, and its reported ranking percentile was 51 in both 2024–25 and 2025–26, down from 54 in 2023–24. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 10.1 in 2024–25 and 30% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25; chronic absenteeism was 10% in 2025–26, compared with 24% statewide.