Summary:
Zip code 67104 has two schools in Barber County North: Medicine Lodge Grade School, serving pre-K through grade 6 with 253 students, and Medicine Lodge Junior/Senior High School, serving grades 7–12 with 224 students. Their reported all-grades results can be compared, but the schools serve different, nonoverlapping grades, so the figures are not a grade-matched comparison. The clearest finding is that the grade school leads the high school in all three reported subjects.
Medicine Lodge Grade School stands out at the top on all-grades results: it reports 51% in ELA, 50% in math, and 44% in science, compared with 39%, 40%, and 37% at the high school—advantages of 12, 10, and 8 percentage points. The grade school is also above state results by 5 points in ELA, 9 in math, and 6 in science; Medicine Lodge Junior/Senior High School is below the state by 7, 1, and 2 points, respectively. Still, grade-level results reveal strengths at both schools: the grade school’s grade 5 math is 14 points above the state, while the high school’s grade 10 math is 7 points above and grade 11 science is 6 points above. The high school’s grade 8 ELA is 8 points below the state.
Recent results are mixed rather than moving in one direction: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, the grade school improved 6 points in ELA and 5 in math but fell 4 in science; the high school gained 3 in ELA and 5 in science but dropped 7 in math. SchoolDigger rankings have improved at both schools: the grade school reached the 58th percentile and the high school the 68th, with each rated 3 stars. The high school also reports a 93% graduation rate, above the state’s 90%, alongside a 2% dropout rate versus 1% statewide. Context measures differ: chronic absenteeism is 10% at the grade school and 17% at the high school, while student–teacher ratios are 11.4 and 8.6, respectively; free/reduced-lunch rates are 53% and 50%.
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