Schools in Zip Code 62341

Zip code 62341 has two schools in Hamilton CCSD 328: Hamilton Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8, and Hamilton High School, serving grades 9–12; they enroll 384 and 193 students, respectively. The clearest concern is attendance at the high school: in 2025–26, chronic absenteeism was 35%, compared with 16% at the elementary school and 24% statewide.

There is no single academic leader across the two schools because they serve different grades and their results are not directly comparable. Hamilton Elementary stood out in all-grade ELA, with 60% proficient, 3 percentage points above the state; its all-grade math result was 37%, 2 points below. At Hamilton High, ninth-grade ELA was a relative strength at 67%, 5 points above state, as was eleventh-grade ELA at 53%, 3 points above. The largest gaps were in high-school science: eleventh-grade proficiency was 26%, 22 points below state. Tenth-grade results also lagged in ELA by 12 points and math by 14 points.

Recent changes show different patterns: Hamilton Elementary’s ELA proficiency fell from 64% in 2024–25 to 60% in 2025–26, while its lead over state narrowed by 8 points; math fell from 43% to 37%, shifting from above state to 2 points below. In contrast, Hamilton High’s eleventh-grade ELA rose from 32% to 53%, improving its state-relative gap by 23 points, though grade 10 math and science still trailed state. SchoolDigger’s percentiles also shifted: elementary went from the 61st percentile in 2023–24 to the 46th in 2025–26, while high school went from the 84th to the 42nd. As context, in 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible students were 56% at the elementary school and 47% at the high school; student–teacher ratios were 12 and 11.1, respectively.