Schools in Zip Code 67009

Zip code 67009 has two schools serving 169 students: Puls Elementary serves prekindergarten through grade 8, and Attica High serves grades 9–12. The clearest finding is that Puls has the stronger reported all-grades results in both English language arts and math, while its ELA result is close to the state figure.

Puls Elementary stands out at the top in the reported subjects: its ELA proficiency is 47%, compared with 13% at Attica High, a 34-point difference; in math, the results are 31% and 13%, an 18-point difference. Puls is about 1 point above the state in ELA, while Attica High is 33 points below; both schools are below the state in math, by 10 points for Puls and 29 for Attica High. Puls is the only school with a science result: 17%, or 22 points below the state. SchoolDigger ranks Puls 276th of 657 schools, in the 58th percentile with 3 stars, and Attica High 322nd of 340, in the 5th percentile with 0 stars. Because the schools serve different grade spans, these all-grades comparisons do not match identical groups of grades.

Puls’s two-year results are mixed: ELA rose 8 points, shifting from 6 points below the state to 1 point above; math fell 7 points as the state figure rose, widening Puls’s gap by 9 points; and science improved 6 points while the state result fell, narrowing Puls’s deficit by 9 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking history also differs: Puls dipped and partly recovered, ending 1 percentile point below its 2023–24 level, while Attica High’s latest listed percentile is 15 points below its 2022–23 level. The schools differ in other reported measures too: Puls has a 15.5 student-teacher ratio and a 61% free/reduced-lunch rate, compared with 4.4 and 40% at Attica High. Both schools’ chronic absenteeism rates are below the state’s 18%, including 15% at Attica High despite its lower proficiency results.