Summary:
Zip code 67437 has one school, Lakeside Junior/Senior High School, serving grades 6–12 in the Waconda district. It enrolls 127 students, and its 2024–25 student–teacher ratio was 9.1. The most notable result is a strong math score alongside a weaker science result: in 2025–26, math proficiency was 59%, 18 percentage points above the state, while science was 36%, 2 points below it.
Because this ZIP-code list contains only one school, there is no school-to-school top-or-bottom comparison. Within its own results, Lakeside Junior/Senior High School was strongest relative to the state in math; ELA was also higher, at 54% compared with 46% statewide, an 8-point advantage. Science was near, but below, the state result. Grade-level scores show that these overall results vary: math was above the state in every reported grade, by 11 to 35 points. ELA was 29 points above the state in grade 6 and 19 points above in grade 8, but below in grades 7 and 10. SchoolDigger rated the school 3 stars and ranked it 132nd of 340 schools, in the 61st percentile.
Recent results improved in ELA and math but fell sharply in science. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, Lakeside’s ELA score rose 6 points and math rose 10, while science fell 38 points; the state’s science score fell 3 points. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking also rose in the latest year, from the 40th percentile in 2023–24 to the 35th in 2024–25 and the 61st in 2025–26. Other outcomes offer useful context: graduation was 100% in 2023–24, compared with 90% statewide, and chronic absenteeism was 14% in 2025–26, below the state’s 18% but above the district’s 10%. The school’s free/reduced-lunch rate was 52% in 2024–25.
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