Summary:
ZIP code 67335 has three schools serving different grade spans: Cherryvale Senior / Middle School for grades 7–12, Lincoln Central Elementary for prekindergarten–6, and Thayer Schools for prekindergarten–8. Their 2025–26 all-grades results show a wide spread, with proficiency ranging from 30% to 64% across the three subjects. The most important finding is that results vary sharply from school to school, rather than describing the area as uniformly strong or weak.
Thayer leads the all-grades results in ELA, math, and science, at 58%, 57%, and 64%, respectively. It outpaces Cherryvale, which is lowest in all three subjects at 34%, 30%, and 30%, by 25, 27, and 34 percentage points. Lincoln Central is between them in ELA and math, at 48% and 40%, and nearly matches Thayer in science at 57%. Compared with state results, Thayer is ahead by 13 points in ELA, 16 in math, and 25 in science; Lincoln Central is 18 points ahead in science. Grade-level results add an important distinction: Lincoln Central’s third-grade ELA result is 74%, compared with 25% at Thayer, while Thayer leads Lincoln Central by 51 points in sixth-grade ELA.
Recent trends favor Thayer, which improved in all three subjects from 2024–25 to 2025–26: 6 points in ELA, 13 in math, and 15 in science. Cherryvale’s science result fell 18 points, from 47% to 30%, although its math rose 3 points; Lincoln Central’s science rose 5 points while its ELA and math dipped. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Thayer climbed from 54th to 74th over three years, while Cherryvale returned to its earlier 22nd-percentile standing. Enrollment and lunch rates offer context, not an explanation: Thayer has 137 students and a 58% free/reduced-lunch rate, compared with 268 students and 65% at Lincoln Central and 277 students and 66% at Cherryvale. Student-teacher ratios are close, at 11.6, 11.4, and 11, respectively. Individual grade results may differ from each school’s all-grades picture.
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