Best Public Schools in Zip Code 62075

Zip code 62075 has two schools in Nokomis CUSD 22, serving 601 students in all: North Elementary School (prekindergarten–grade 5) and Nokomis Junior/Senior High School (grades 6–12). The clearest difference in the 2025–2026 all-grades results is ELA: the high school had 64% proficient and North had 47%, a 17-point gap; the state rate was 56%. The high school was 7 points above the state, while North was 10 points below. In math, results were closer and both below the state: 36% at the high school and 39% at North, compared with 40% statewide. These all-grades rates are broad summaries, not grade-matched comparisons, because the schools serve different grades.

Grade-level results show strengths and shortfalls at both schools. North’s fifth-grade math proficiency was 54%, 18 points above the state, while its third-grade ELA result was 35%, 12 points below. At the high school, eighth-grade ELA reached 81%, 18 points above the state; eighth-grade science was 34%, 18 points below. Ninth-grade PreACT results were also a bright spot, with 78% proficient in ELA, 16 points above the state. These contrasts mean that neither school’s overall result tells the whole story across grades and subjects.

Recent results and SchoolDigger rankings point to weaker relative standing overall, with some exceptions. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the high school’s all-grades results fell 4 points in ELA and 7 in math, while state results rose 3 points in ELA and 1 in math. North’s ELA fell about 1 point and math fell 3, as state results increased in both subjects. The high school’s eighth-grade science result also dropped 30 points between those years, while North’s fifth-grade science stayed at 57%. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking fell from 72 to 54 for the high school, which has 3 stars, and from 62 to 46 for North, which has 2 stars. For context, in 2024–2025 the high school’s student-teacher ratio was 11.7 and 41% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible; North’s ratio was 13.2 and 44% were free/reduced lunch eligible.