Summary:
ZIP code 62363 has three schools in Pikeland CUSD 10, serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Pittsfield South Elementary School, Pikeland Community School and Pittsfield High School. Together, they enroll 1,200 students. The clearest area-wide concern is high school attendance: chronic absenteeism at Pittsfield High is 31%, compared with 24% statewide.
Pittsfield High School has the strongest reported test results in some areas: its grade 11 results were 8 points above the state in ELA and 7 points above in science. However, all three reported high school math results were below state results, with grade 9 math 25 points behind. Pikeland Community School had the largest reported shortfall: its all-grades math result was 17%, 23 points below the state; its ELA result was 17 points below. SchoolDigger places Pikeland Community at the 9th percentile with 0 stars, and Pittsfield High at the 37th percentile with 2 stars. Scores cover different grades and assessments, so they do not support a direct achievement ranking; no elementary test results are supplied.
Recent results show improvement at Pikeland Community School, though its scores remain below the state: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, its all-grades ELA rose 12 points and math rose 6 points, while the gaps narrowed by 9 and 5 points, respectively. High school trends varied: grade 11 ELA and science rose 9 and 17 points, while grades 9 and 10 generally declined. SchoolDigger’s rankings also fell over the period, from the 20th to the 9th percentile for Pikeland Community and from the 43rd to the 37th for Pittsfield High. Student-teacher ratios range from 13.4 at Pittsfield High to 16.5 at Pikeland Community. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible figures ranged from 52% to 58% across the schools; these are context, not an explanation of results.
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