Summary:
ZIP code 62442 has two schools: Martinsville Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 6, and Martinsville Junior-Senior High School, serving grades 7–12. The clearest difference is in 2025–2026 ELA: elementary proficiency was 70%, while the high school’s was 36%; compared with the state’s 56%, elementary was 14 percentage points above and the high school 21 points below. The most important finding is the contrast between elementary’s strong ELA results and the high school’s much weaker reported results.
Martinsville Elementary stands out most on reported results: its all-grades ELA score was 35 percentage points higher than the high school’s, and its mathematics proficiency was 56%, 17 points above the state’s 40%. The high school’s current mathematics score was suppressed, so its standing in that subject is unknown. Elementary fifth-grade science was 45%, 2 points below the state’s 48%; the high school’s current eighth-grade science result was also suppressed. SchoolDigger ranked elementary at the 69th percentile in 2025–2026 and the high school at the 21st percentile. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades scores are not direct same-grade comparisons.
Elementary results improved faster than state results in the subjects with year-to-year comparisons: ELA rose 14 percentage points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, versus 3 points statewide, and mathematics rose 9 points, versus 1 point statewide. Fifth-grade science improved 12 points, narrowing its state gap from 7 points to 2. The high school’s ELA score rose 3 points, but its gap with the state remained about 21 points; SchoolDigger’s ranking also fell from the 55th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 21st in 2025–2026. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 59% at elementary and 53% at the high school. Student-teacher ratios were 14.2:1 and 9.3:1, respectively. These are useful context when comparing the schools, but do not establish what accounts for their different results.
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