Schools in Zip Code 62448

ZIP code 62448 has three schools in Jasper County CUD 1, serving grades 1–12 and enrolling 1,064 students in total. The most important concern is achievement at Newton Community High School: all nine reported subject-and-grade results in 2025–2026 were below state results, with average gaps of 10 percentage points in ELA, 14 in math and 11 in science. The widest shortfall was ninth-grade math, at 16% versus 42% statewide, a 27-point gap.

Newton Elementary School has the strongest overall IAR results: 60% in ELA and 48% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide. It leads Jasper County Junior High by 8 points in ELA and 22 points in math. The junior high’s clearest challenge is math, especially in grade 8, where proficiency was 16% versus 35% statewide, a 19-point gap. Results vary within schools, too: Newton Elementary’s grade-six ELA was 17 points above the state, while its grade-five ELA was 7 points below; junior-high math was 4 points below the state in grade 7 and 19 points below in grade 8. Newton Community High also has a positive result: its graduation rate was 99%, versus 90% statewide.

Recent trends are mixed: junior-high all-grades results rose by 10 points in ELA and 9 in math, while Newton Elementary’s ELA rose 3 points but its math fell 6. Meanwhile, the high school’s average gap from the state widened from 7 to 10 points in ELA, 2 to 14 in math, and 3 to 11 in science. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings also fell from 70 to 55 for Newton Elementary, 38 to 28 for the junior high, and 57 to 28 for the high school between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Student-teacher ratios in 2024–2025 were 12.8 at the elementary, 18.8 at the junior high and 15.5 at the high school. Free/reduced lunch eligible figures that year were 49%, 46% and 40%, respectively; these are context, not explanations for results.