Summary:
Zip code 66712 has two schools in Northeast USD 246: Northeast Elementary, serving pre-K through grade 8, and North East High, serving grades 9–12. Together, they cover the full school-age span, but their test results show a shared challenge: both schools are below state proficiency rates in English language arts (ELA), math and science. Math is the largest shortfall at each school: Northeast Elementary is 21 percentage points below the state, and North East High is 26 points below.
Northeast Elementary has the higher reported all-grades proficiency rate in every subject: 31% versus 25% in ELA, 20% versus 15% in math, and 33% versus 21% in science. Its clearest grade-specific bright spot is eighth-grade science, at 42% proficient—3 points above the state rate. The weakest reported grade-and-subject result is North East High 10th-grade math, at 15%, or 22 points below the state; Northeast Elementary’s lowest is sixth-grade ELA, at 22%, or 20 points below. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades rates are not direct, matched-grade comparisons.
Recent trends are mixed: Northeast Elementary’s science proficiency rose 9 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, narrowing its gap with the state by 12 points, while its ELA and math gains lagged state improvement. North East High’s ELA rate fell 3 points and math rose 1 point, but its gaps widened in both subjects. SchoolDigger’s rankings also declined in percentile terms: Northeast Elementary went from the 24th percentile to the 11th, while North East High went from the 23rd to the 13th between 2023–24 and 2025–26. The elementary school has a higher student-teacher ratio (10.6 versus 7.8) and free/reduced-lunch rate (74% versus 71%); these are contextual differences, not explanations of scores. North East High’s graduation rate was 92%, 3 points above the state rate.
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