Summary:
El Dorado’s six schools—three elementary schools, a middle school, a high school and an alternative virtual school—enroll 1,756 students and serve children from elementary through high-school grades. The clearest shared concern is fourth grade: across the three elementary schools, average math proficiency is 10%, compared with 44% statewide, and average ELA proficiency is 22%, compared with 50% statewide.
Skelly Elementary School leads the elementary schools in all three latest all-grades results: 39% in ELA, 29% in math and 51% in science. Grandview Elementary is next, at 37%, 27% and 44%; Skelly’s science result is 13 percentage points above the state, and Grandview’s is 6 points above. At the other end, El Dorado Virtual School reports 10% in both ELA and math, while El Dorado High has the lowest science result, 12%. These all-grades comparisons are not perfectly like for like because the schools serve different grades; the virtual school enrolls 22 students.
Recent results point in different directions by subject and school. Across the six schools, the unweighted average fell by 2 percentage points in ELA and 2 points in math from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while the state improved in both subjects. Skelly improved in all three subjects, including a 14-point science gain; Grandview’s science rose 16 points even as its ELA and math fell 15 and 20 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rank for Grandview also dropped from 54th to 22nd between 2023–24 and 2025–26, while Skelly’s rose from 14th to 28th. The elementary schools’ student-teacher ratios are similar, from 13.0 to 14.2; their reported free/reduced-lunch rates range from 41% at Grandview to 81% at Skelly, a difference that describes the schools but does not explain their results.
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