Summary:
Zip code 62513 has one listed school, Meridian Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5, so there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison; the results describe one school in the area. In 2025–2026, 41% of students were proficient in ELA, compared with 56% statewide, while math was 41% versus 40% statewide and fifth-grade science was 55% versus 48%. The clearest academic concern is ELA, where the school was 15 percentage points below the state.
As the only school listed, Meridian Elementary School is technically both the area’s top and bottom school, but that is not a meaningful local ranking. Its strongest state comparison is fifth-grade science, 8 points above the state; its largest gap is grade 3 ELA, 19 points below. ELA was also below the state in grades 4 and 5, by 8 and 7 points. Math results varied by grade: grade 3 was 2 points above the state, grade 4 was 1 point below, and grade 5 was 7 points below. Chronic absenteeism was lower than both Meridian CUSD 15 and the state: 13%, compared with 18% and 24%.
Results have shifted differently across subjects. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA fell from 47% to 41%, while the state rose from 53% to 56%; the school’s gap widened from 6 to 15 points below the state. Math rose from 37% to 41%, moving from 2 points below to 1 point above the state. Science remained above the state, but its advantage narrowed from 13 to 8 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile fell from 62 to 52 to 35 over the three reported years, and its rating went from 3 stars to 2. For context, the school had a 14.8 student-teacher ratio and 48% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these figures describe the school but do not explain its results.
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