Summary:
ZIP code 62236 has four schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12, with 1,904 students across Eagleview Elementary School, Parkview Elementary School, Columbia Middle School, and Columbia High School. The strongest overall message is that every supplied 2025–2026 test result is above its matching state result, though the schools’ strengths vary by subject and grade; no test-score results are supplied for Eagleview.
Columbia Middle School leads the shared all-grades IAR comparison in ELA, with 86% proficiency versus 78% at Parkview Elementary School, an 8-point gap. Parkview leads in Mathematics, at 76% versus 66%, a 10-point difference. Both schools are well above state results in these subjects. Columbia Middle’s grade 6 Mathematics result is especially strong: 85%, or 49 points above the state. Columbia High School also exceeds the state in every supplied ACT and PreACT Secure subject; its leads range from 8 points to 18 points.
Recent trends are mixed: across 13 matched comparisons, the average school lead over the state narrowed by about 1 point, from 19 to 18 points. Columbia Middle’s two all-grades IAR results improved, Parkview’s declined, and Columbia High’s grade 9 results rose while its grade 10 and 11 results fell. SchoolDigger’s latest statewide percentiles are 94 for Columbia Middle, 90 for Parkview, and 86 for Columbia High. As context, in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible rates ranged from 15% at Parkview to 17% at Columbia Middle; student–teacher ratios ranged from 12.1 at Eagleview to 16.4 at Columbia Middle. These figures do not explain the differences in test results.
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