Schools in Zip Code 61911

Zip code 61911 has two schools in Arthur CUSD 305: Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond High School serves grades 9–12, and Arthur Grade School serves pre-K–8. The high school enrolls 310 students and has a 10.8 student-teacher ratio; the grade school enrolls 258 and has a ratio of 12. The clearest overall finding is that results vary substantially by grade and subject, rather than showing uniformly strong or weak performance: grade-school seventh-grade ELA is well above the state, while high-school ninth-grade math and science are well below it.

Arthur Grade School stands out for seventh-grade ELA and math: 81% were proficient in ELA versus 58% statewide, a 23-point advantage, and 61% in math versus 40%, a 22-point advantage. Its science results were weaker: fifth-grade proficiency was 37% versus 48% statewide, and eighth-grade proficiency was 44% versus 52%. At the high school, eleventh-grade ACT results were above state levels in all three subjects, led by math at 51% versus 40%. Ninth-grade PreACT math and science were the clearest weak spots: 27% versus 42% statewide in math and 34% versus 47% in science. The schools test different grades and exams, so these results do not support a direct achievement ranking between them.

Recent results are mixed, with a sharp ninth-grade exception at the high school: PreACT science fell from 61% to 34% from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while math fell from 34% to 27%; in contrast, tenth-grade PreACT ELA rose from 52% to 63%. Grade-school IAR ELA rose from 61% to 63%, but math slipped from 40% to 38%. SchoolDigger’s rankings also declined recently: the high school went from the 76th percentile to the 65th and has 3 stars; the grade school moved from the 66th to the 48th percentile and has 2 stars. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 47% at the high school and 56% at the grade school. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 24% at the high school and 19% at the grade school; the high school’s graduation rate was 98%.