Summary:
ZIP code 61814 has one middle school, Bismarck-Henning Junior High School, serving grades 5–8 and enrolling 246 students. Its 2025–2026 all-grades ELA proficiency was 62%, compared with 56% statewide, while math proficiency was 26%, compared with 40% statewide. The most important takeaway is that ELA is above the state result, but math remains substantially below it.
Because this ZIP code has only one school, there is no local top or bottom school to compare. The strongest subject-and-grade result is grade 6 ELA: 78% proficient, 19 points above the state; grade 7 ELA was also 8 points above. Results are less strong in grades 5 and 8 ELA, which were 8 and 4 points below the state, respectively. Math is the clearest concern: the all-grades result was 13 points below the state, and grade 7 math was 17 points below; grade 6 math was a brighter spot, 6 points above the state. Science was close to state results, with grade 5 one point above and grade 8 four points below.
Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, though math remains behind: ELA rose from 57% to 62%, widening its advantage over the state from 4 to 6 points; math rose from 23% to 26%, narrowing its state gap by 2 points. SchoolDigger ranks the school 544th of 1,126 statewide, in the 52nd percentile, with 3 stars; earlier ranks were 620th of 1,368 in 2024–2025 and 674th of 1,363 in 2023–2024. Context figures include a 13.6 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 44% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Chronic absenteeism was 7% in 2025–2026, below the Bismarck Henning CUSD figure of 11% and the state’s 24%. The one-school list cannot show how these measures compare with other local schools.
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