Summary:
Zip code 62458 has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: St Elmo Elementary School, St Elmo Junior High School, and St Elmo Senior High School. The latest results show stronger all-grades IAR performance at Elementary than at Junior High, while Senior High’s results vary by subject. The clearest academic strength in the area is Elementary’s latest IAR performance, which was above state results in both ELA and math.
St Elmo Elementary stands out in the 2025–2026 all-grades IAR results: 70% were proficient in ELA and 46% in math, compared with 55% and 26% at Junior High. Elementary was 14 points above the state in ELA and 6 points above in math; Junior High was 2 points below the state in ELA and 14 points below in math. Junior High’s grade-8 science result was a bright spot, at 61% proficient, 9 points above the state. At Senior High, 10th-grade PreACT science was strongest at 60%, 12 points above the state, though other high-school results were mixed.
Junior High math improved notably, rising from 13% proficient in 2024–2025 to 26% in 2025–2026, but remained 14 points below the state. SchoolDigger’s rank-history percentile also rose at each school from 2023–2024 to 2025–2026: Elementary from the 47th to the 72nd percentile, Senior High from the 17th to the 56th, and Junior High from the 22nd to the 47th. Chronic absenteeism was below the state’s 24% at all three schools, ranging from 9% at Elementary and Junior High to 18% at Senior High; that high-school rate was 7 points above the district rate. For context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible rates ranged from 45% at Senior High to 57% at Elementary, and student-teacher ratios were 13.7, 11.0, and 12.7, respectively. Results across schools should be interpreted with their different grade spans in mind.
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