Summary:
Zip code 62930 has one middle school, Eldorado Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 246 students, so families have one local middle-school option rather than a choice among area schools. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 29%, higher than the state’s 24% and the district’s 25%. The most important academic finding is the school’s standout eighth-grade science result: 89% of students were proficient, compared with 52% statewide, an advantage of 37 percentage points.
With only one school in the area, there are no local school-to-school leaders or trailers; compared with state results, Eldorado Middle School is strongest in science and ELA, while eighth-grade math is the notable weakness. All-grades ELA proficiency was 69%, 12 points above the state’s 56%; all-grades math was 43%, 3 points above the state’s 40%. The math overall figure masks sharp differences by grade: the school was 19 points above the state in grade 6 and 13 points above in grade 7, but 14 points below in grade 8. ELA was above the state in all three grades, with the largest lead—14 points—in grade 8.
Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, especially in math: proficiency rose 10 points, moving from 6 points below the state to 3 points above it. ELA increased 6 points, and its state advantage widened from 9 to 12 points; eighth-grade science rose 7 points, with its large state lead remaining nearly steady. SchoolDigger ranked Eldorado Middle School 346th of 1,126 schools, at the 69th percentile with three stars; its percentile stayed broadly stable, between the 68th and 70th, over the three reported years. For context, the school had a 12.2 student-teacher ratio and 68% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these figures describe the school, but do not explain its test results.
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