Best Public Schools in Zip Code 62047

Zip code 62047 has two schools in Calhoun CUSD 40: Calhoun Elementary/ Junior High School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8, and Calhoun High School, serving grades 9–12. The elementary/junior high’s 2025–26 all-grades ELA result was 61%, 5 percentage points above the state, while the high school’s graduation rate was 92%, 3 points above the state. The clearest area-wide takeaway is that elementary/junior high ELA results are strong overall, while the high school’s graduation results are stronger than its tested ELA results.

The elementary/junior high stands out for ELA, especially in grade 4, where its result was 82%, 26 points above the state; its grade 3 math result was 33 points above the state. But results vary: grade 8 ELA was 12 points below the state, and grade 8 math was 26%. The high school’s most positive standout is graduation, alongside science, which was 1 point above the state. Its academic concern is ELA: 11th-grade ACT ELA was 10 points below the state, and ninth-grade PreACT ELA was 29 points below. SchoolDigger rates the elementary/junior high at the 66th statewide percentile (3 stars) and the high school at the 34th percentile (2 stars).

Results have moved in different directions. The elementary/junior high’s all-grades ELA rose 15 points between 2024–25 and 2025–26, moving from 7 points below the state to 5 points above; math fell 1 point and shifted from slightly above to slightly below the state. At the high school, ACT ELA fell 10 points and its gap widened, while ACT math rose 2 points and narrowed its gap; the PreACT ELA gap also widened. SchoolDigger’s rankings declined 5 percentile points for the elementary/junior high and 19 for the high school from 2023–24 to 2025–26. Student-teacher ratios were similar at 11.2 and 11.4; in 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 42% and 34%, respectively—context that does not explain the results. Because the schools serve different grade spans and their assessments differ, their scores are not a like-for-like comparison.