Summary:
ZIP code 61814 has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Bismarck-Henning Elementary School (PK–4), Bismarck-Henning Junior High School (5–8), and Bismarck-Henning Rossville-Alvin Cooperative High School 1 (9–12). The latest supplied all-grades test results are for the elementary and junior high schools. The clearest overall strength is elementary’s latest performance, especially its strong ELA results and sharp improvement from the previous year.
Bismarck-Henning Elementary School leads the two schools with 2025–26 scores in both subjects: its all-grades ELA result is 76%, compared with 62% at Bismarck-Henning Junior High School, a 14-point gap; in math, the scores are 53% and 26%, a 27-point gap. Elementary is above the state in ELA and math by 19 and 14 points, respectively. Junior high is 6 points above the state in ELA but 13 points below in math. Grade-level results vary, too: elementary third-grade math is 27 points above the state, while fourth-grade math is 7 points below; junior-high sixth-grade ELA is 19 points above the state, while fifth-grade ELA is 8 points below.
Elementary’s results improved most from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA rose 42 points and math 12 points. Junior-high ELA rose 5 points and math 3 points, but its latest math score remains well below the state. SchoolDigger’s elementary ranking rose from the 38th percentile in 2024–25 to the 74th in 2025–26, with its rating increasing from 2 to 4 stars; junior high’s ranking was steadier, moving from the 55th to the 52nd percentile. The schools have similar reported 2024–25 student-teacher ratios—13.4 at elementary and 13.6 at junior high—and free/reduced lunch eligible measures of 41% and 44%; the high school’s measure was 41%. In 2025–26, chronic absenteeism was 15% at elementary and 7% at junior high, versus 24% statewide. The high school has no supplied test scores, and the state suppressed junior-high grade 8 math, so neither result can be compared here.
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