Summary:
Zip code 66866 has two schools: Peabody-Burns Elementary serves prekindergarten through grade 5, and Peabody-Burns Junior/Senior High School serves grades 6–12; they enroll 104 and 102 students, and no middle school is listed. Both schools are below state proficiency levels in all-grades ELA, math, and science. Across the schools, the average is 33% in ELA, 27% in math, and 13% in science, compared with state results of 46%, 41%, and 38%. Science is the clearest shared concern: the schools’ average is 25 points below the state.
Neither school leads in every subject: Junior/Senior High is ahead by 2 points in ELA (34% versus 32%) and 8 points in science (17% versus 9%), while Elementary leads in math by 5 points (29% versus 25%). Both schools remain below state results in each subject, with science gaps of 21 points at Junior/Senior High and 29 points at Elementary. Grade-level results also vary considerably: Elementary’s fifth-grade ELA proficiency is 0%, while its fourth-grade ELA is 43%; at Junior/Senior High, math ranges from 8% in seventh grade to 33% in 10th grade. These all-grades school comparisons reflect different grade spans, so they are not direct comparisons of the same grades.
Recent score trends diverge: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Junior/Senior High improved by 9 points in ELA, 5 in math, and 4 in science, while Elementary declined by 1, 6, and 31 points, respectively. SchoolDigger places Elementary at the 14th percentile and Junior/Senior High at the 23rd percentile for 2025–2026; both receive one star. The high school’s SchoolDigger percentile rose from 3 to 23 over three years, while Elementary’s went from 11 to 26 and then 14. Elementary has a higher student-teacher ratio (9.2 versus 6.9) and free/reduced-lunch rate (61% versus 51%). Chronic absenteeism also differs: 13% at Elementary and 31% at Junior/Senior High, compared with 18% statewide.
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