Summary:
Zip code 62069 has two schools in Mount Olive CUSD 5: Mt Olive Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 with 328 students, and Mt Olive High School, serving grades 9–12 with 151 students. Both schools’ test results match the district figures, so they do not provide an independent comparison. The clearest takeaway is that results vary sharply by grade and subject, rather than either school being consistently strong or weak.
Mt Olive Elementary stands out for 8th-grade ELA: 81% were proficient in 2025–2026, compared with 63% statewide, a 17-point lead. Its 5th-grade ELA result was a low point: 25% proficient versus 55% statewide, a 30-point shortfall. At Mt Olive High, science was the strongest area: 10th-grade PreACT Secure science reached 66%, 17 points above the state, and 11th-grade ACT science was 58%, 10 points above. The clearest shortfall was 9th-grade PreACT Secure math, at 23% versus 42% statewide, a 19-point gap.
Recent results show both sharp declines and notable gains. At Mt Olive Elementary, all-grades ELA increased by 1 point from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, but its gap with the state widened to 2 points below. At Mt Olive High, 9th-grade PreACT Secure ELA fell by 30 points, shifting from 16 points above the state to 13 points below; 10th-grade ELA rose by 3 points and finished 10 points above. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings also fell: elementary went from 52 to 37, and high school from 65 to 48; both received two stars in 2025–2026. In 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios were 10.8 at elementary and 12.0 at high school. Their free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were close—47.6% and 48.3%, respectively. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 differed more: 13% at elementary, 11 points below the state, compared with 23% at high school, close to the state rate.
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