Best Public Schools in Zip Code 62625

Zip code 62625 has two schools in Cantrall, both part of Athens CUSD 213: Cantrall Elementary School serves PK–3 and enrolls 334 students, while Cantrall Intermediate School serves grades 4–6 and enrolls 184. The clearest overall takeaway is that both schools’ reported 2025–2026 results were above state proficiency levels in every supplied subject and grade.

The schools show different strengths: Cantrall Intermediate led in all-grades ELA, with 70% proficient compared with 63% at Cantrall Elementary, a 7-point difference. Elementary led in all-grades math, at 63% versus 53%, a 10-point gap. Intermediate’s fifth-grade math is the notable weaker result: 39% proficient, just 3 points above the state, compared with margins of 21 points in fourth grade and 18 in sixth. Intermediate also had the only reported science result: 61% proficient in fifth grade, 13 points above the state. These all-grades comparisons are descriptive, not same-grade comparisons, because the schools serve different grades.

Both schools remained above the state over the two years reported, but their average advantage narrowed: by 6 points in ELA and 7 in math. That change was uneven: Elementary’s all-grades math result fell 13 points, from 76% to 63%, while Intermediate’s rose 2 points, from 51% to 53%. SchoolDigger lists the district at rank 268 of 738, in the 64th percentile, with 3 stars; those are district figures, not individual school rankings. The schools have similar student-teacher ratios—13.1 at Elementary and 13.6 at Intermediate—and similar free/reduced lunch eligible rates in 2024–2025: 35.3% and 34.8%, respectively.