Summary:
Salt Creek School District 48 has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 8, with enrollment ranging from 149 to 183 students per school. Test results are available for John E Albright Middle School and Stella May Swartz Elementary School. In 2025–2026, both schools were above state results in every reported grade and subject; the clearest overall standout is Albright’s ELA performance.
Albright leads the two schools with results: its all-grades scores were 82% in ELA and 58% in math, compared with 68% and 56% at Swartz—gaps of 15 points in ELA and 2 in math. Both were above state results: Albright by 26 points in ELA and 19 in math, and Swartz by 11 and 16 points, respectively. Swartz stands out for lower chronic absenteeism, at 9%, compared with 17% at Albright and 16% at Salt Creek Elementary School. Salt Creek has no test results in the supplied data, so its academic performance cannot be compared here.
Recent test trends favor Albright in both subjects: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, its ELA rose 4 points and math rose 15; Swartz’s ELA rose 9 points, while its math fell 11. SchoolDigger’s history also shows Albright rising from the 77th to the 87th percentile, while Swartz fell from the 79th to the 74th. SchoolDigger lists the district at rank 142 of 738, in the 81st percentile, with 4 stars. As context, the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible share was 47% at Albright, 39% at Swartz, and 36% at Salt Creek; Albright’s student-teacher ratio was 9.9, compared with 14.9 at Swartz. Since the schools serve different grades, schoolwide comparisons are broad rather than fully like-for-like.
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