Attica

Puls Elementary and Attica High are the two listed schools in Attica, serving PK–8 and grades 9–12, respectively, with 169 students combined. Their results vary considerably by subject and grade: Puls has stronger results in some elementary grades, while the high school’s reported proficiency is low in both subjects. The key pattern for families is that strong early-grade results at Puls do not carry through to its upper grades, and the high school also falls well below state proficiency levels.

Puls stands out at the top in third grade: ELA proficiency is 69% versus 52% statewide, and math is 69% versus 43%. Fifth-grade ELA is also above the state, at 64% versus 51%. However, in grades 7 and 8, Puls ELA ranges from 23% to 27%, compared with 42% to 44% statewide, and math ranges from 15% to 20%, compared with 38% to 40%. Its all-grades results are 47% in ELA, 31% in math, and 17% in science; Attica High reports 13% in both ELA and math. Against state figures, Attica High is behind by 33 points in ELA and 29 in math. SchoolDigger ranks Puls 276th of 657, at the 58th percentile with 3 stars, and Attica High 322nd of 340, at the 5th percentile with 0 stars. All-grades comparisons are not grade-matched because the schools serve different grades.

Puls’s two-year trend is mixed: ELA rose 8 points to 47% and science rose 6 points to 17%, while math fell 7 points to 31%. Its ELA result moved from below the state to slightly above it, while its math gap widened. SchoolDigger’s percentile for Puls was broadly stable across its listed years, while Attica High fell from the 15th percentile in 2021–22 to the 5th in 2025–26. Both schools’ chronic absenteeism rates are below the state’s 18%: 11% at Puls and 15% at Attica High. The reported student–teacher ratios are 15.5 at Puls and 4.4 at Attica High; their free/reduced-lunch rates are 61% and 40%, respectively.