Summary:
Zip code 61843 has two schools in Fisher CUSD 1, serving kindergarten through grade 12: Fisher Grade School serves K–6 (326 students), and Fisher Junior/Senior High School serves grades 7–12 (284 students). The clearest area-wide strength is that both schools’ 2025–2026 all-grades IAR results were above state rates. Giving each school equal weight, the average was 74% in ELA and 51% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide—advantages of 18 and 11 percentage points, respectively.
Fisher Junior/Senior High School had the higher reported all-grades IAR rates: 82% in ELA versus 67% at Fisher Grade School, a 14-point difference, and 54% in math versus 48%, a 7-point difference. Because the schools serve different grade spans, these all-grades figures are not like-grade comparisons. Grade-level results show why the grade school’s overall math score needs context: fourth-grade math was 28%, 14 points below the state, while third-grade math was 70%, 21 points above. The high school’s strong IAR results were not consistent across tests; ninth-grade PreACT Secure science was 34%, 13 points below the state.
Results rose substantially at the high school between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026: its all-grades IAR ELA increased by 20 points and math by 21. The grade school’s ELA rose by 5 points, while its math slipped by 1. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking declined over the same period: the grade school was at the 57th percentile, down from 66th the prior year, and the high school was at the 54th, down from 71st. The high school’s student-teacher ratio was lower (12.6 versus 13.8), and its free/reduced lunch eligible share was also lower in 2024–2025 (29% versus 39%); these are context, not explanations for results. Attendance is another difference: chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 19% at the high school and 6% at the grade school, both below the 24% state rate. The high school’s graduation rate was 93%, compared with 90% statewide.
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