Summary:
Three schools in Cusd 4 serve prekindergarten through grade 12 in zip code 62351: Unity Elementary School (296 students), Unity Middle School (200 students) and Unity High School (176 students). The clearest overall takeaway is that results vary considerably by school and subject: middle-school ELA and elementary math stand out, while elementary ELA is a concern and high-school results are mixed.
Unity Middle School is the strongest ELA performer: in 2025–26, 71% of students were proficient across tested grades, 15 percentage points above the state. Its grade 7 and 8 ELA results were 80% and 83%, respectively, and its grade 5 and 8 science results were also above state levels by 10 and 25 points. Unity Elementary School leads in all-grades math, with 57% proficiency, 17 points above the state; however, its 41% ELA result was 15 points below. At Unity High School, grade 11 ACT ELA and science were 7 and 6 points above state results, while math was 6 points below; grade 9 and 10 PreACT results were below state levels in every reported subject. Because schools serve different grades and the high school uses different exams, the schoolwide results are not fully like-for-like comparisons.
Recent changes were uneven, with the sharpest concern at Unity Elementary School: its ELA proficiency fell from 53% in 2024–25 to 41% in 2025–26, while the state result rose from 53% to 56%. Unity Middle School ELA rose from 69% to 71%, though its advantage over the state narrowed from 16 to 15 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking history also flags a decline at Unity High School, from the 67th percentile in 2023–24 to the 37th in 2025–26; Middle was at the 67th percentile and Elementary at the 45th that year. For context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 44% at Elementary, 53% at Middle and 40% at High; student-teacher ratios ranged from 10.2 to 13.5.
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