Schools in Zip Code 67042

Schools in ZIP code 67042 include seven schools serving 2,030 students, from elementary through high school, plus an alternative K–12 school. The latest results show substantial differences among schools: average proficiency was 33% in English language arts (ELA), 23% in math, and 33% in science, compared with state results of 46%, 41%, and 38%, respectively. Math is the clearest area-wide concern, with the average 18 percentage points below the state.

Circle Oil Hill Elementary leads in ELA and math, with 49% and 34% proficient—19 and 12 points above the other six schools’ averages. Its ELA result is 3 points above the state, though its math result is 7 points below. Skelly Elementary School leads in science at 51%, 21 points above the other six schools’ average and 13 above the state. At the bottom, El Dorado Virtual School reports 10% in both ELA and math and 16% in science; its ELA and math results are 36 and 31 points below state figures. El Dorado High has the lowest science result among the other schools, at 12%. The Virtual School serves just 22 students in an alternative K–12 setting, so its results are not directly comparable with larger schools.

Recent trends are mixed: science improved among five schools with results in both years, rising from an average of 32% to 41%, while ELA and math averages across all seven schools fell from 35% to 33% and from 25% to 23%. At Skelly, the SchoolDigger statewide percentile rank rose from 14 to 28; at Grandview Elementary, it fell from 54 to 22, alongside declines of 15 points in ELA and 20 in math. Grandview’s chronic absenteeism was just 4%, compared with 18% statewide, showing that attendance and proficiency do not always move together. For a grade-specific contrast, Skelly’s third-grade math was 42.9%, just above the state’s 42.7%.