Summary:
ZIP code 66857 has two small schools in the LeRoy-Gridley district: Southern Coffey County Middle School serves grades 6–8, and Southern Coffey County High School serves grades 9–12; together, they enroll 87 students. Attendance is the clearest shared concern: chronic absenteeism is 25% at the middle school and 29% at the high school, compared with 18% statewide and 15% districtwide.
The middle school’s 2025–26 results are strongest in math relative to the state, but remain below state levels in all three reported subjects: proficiency is 34% in math versus 41% statewide, 21% in ELA versus 46%, and 23% in science versus 38%. Grade-level results show a marked contrast: grade 6 math is within 0.1 percentage point of the state, while grade 8 math is 15% versus 40% statewide and grade 8 ELA is 15% versus 42%. The high school’s latest reported SchoolDigger ranking percentile is higher—65th in 2022–23, compared with the middle school’s 12th in 2025–26—but those different-year figures are not a direct comparison. The high school’s 2023–24 graduation rate was 85%, 5 percentage points below the state’s 90%. The high school has no supplied test scores, so proficiency comparisons apply only to the middle school.
Recent middle-school test trends are mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, math proficiency rose 11 percentage points, while ELA fell 5 points and science rose 2 points. The math gap with the state narrowed by 9 points, but the ELA gap widened by 6; science’s gap narrowed by 5. SchoolDigger’s middle-school ranking percentile also rose, from the 4th percentile in 2023–24 to the 12th in 2025–26. The schools differ in context as well: the high school has 5 students per teacher, compared with 12.1 at the middle school, and free/reduced-lunch rates are 59% and 64%, respectively. These figures describe the schools, but do not explain their results.
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