Summary:
ZIP code 66945 has one elementary school, Hanover Elementary, serving pre-K through grade 8, so families have one local school rather than a choice among several. The most important academic finding is that its 2025–26 all-grades ELA and math scores were both 67%, well above the state results—46% in ELA and 41% in math—and above the Barnes district results by 5 and 6 percentage points, respectively.
Hanover’s strongest grade-level results were in math in grades 3 and 6: it exceeded the state by 39 and 50 percentage points, respectively. The grade 5 math result was a much smaller 5 points above the state. Grade 5 science is the clearest weak spot: Hanover scored 20%, 26 points below the state and 19 below the district. ELA was above the state in every grade shown, by 19 to 22 points. With only one school in the ZIP-code list, there is no local school-to-school top or bottom comparison; the clearest contrast is between Hanover’s strong math results and its grade 5 science result.
Results changed unevenly from 2024–25 to 2025–26: all-grades math rose 24 points, from 43% to 67%, and ELA rose 4 points, from 64% to 67%, while science fell 32 points, from 72% to 40%. Hanover’s advantage over the state widened in math, from 5 to 26 points, and in ELA, from 19 to 21 points; its science advantage narrowed from 31 points to 2. SchoolDigger’s ranking also improved, rising from the 66th percentile in 2023–24 to the 80th in 2025–26, a 14-point increase. Other context includes 231 students, a student-teacher ratio of 25.7, and a 15% free/reduced-lunch rate. The school’s reported chronic absenteeism was 0%, compared with 17% in the district and 18% statewide.
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