Best High Schools in Zip Code 62675

ZIP code 62675 has one listed high school, Porta High School, serving grades 7–12 with 411 students. With no other high schools in the list, parents can compare its results with state figures, but not with nearby schools. The most important academic finding is that math is Porta’s clearest shortfall: it scored below the state in all six reported math comparisons, averaging 13 points lower.

Porta High School’s strongest state-relative result was eighth-grade science, at 59% proficient compared with 52% statewide, a 7-point advantage; 11th-grade ELA was also above the state, by 3 points. The largest gap was in seventh-grade math, where 19% were proficient compared with 40% statewide, a 21-point shortfall. Across the reported comparisons, ELA and science each averaged about 4 points below the state, while math averaged 13 points below. Graduation and attendance measures were more favorable: the 2025–2026 graduation rate was 92%, 2 points above the state, and chronic absenteeism was 19%, 4 points lower.

Results changed in different directions by grade and subject, rather than showing one overall trend. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grades ELA rose 12 points and eighth-grade science rose 33 points; eighth-grade science moved from 19 points below the state to 7 points above. In contrast, science proficiency fell 5 points on the 11th-grade ACT, 8 points in 10th-grade PreACT, and 4 points in ninth-grade PreACT. SchoolDigger rated Porta High School two stars, ranking it 370th of 620 schools and in the 40th percentile in 2025–2026; its reported percentile was 55 in 2023–2024 and 54 in 2024–2025. The school reported a student–teacher ratio of 12.8 in 2024–2025, when 47% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible.