Summary:
ZIP code 67439 has two public schools: Ellsworth Elementary serves prekindergarten through grade 3 and enrolls 188 students, while Ellsworth High serves grades 7–12 and enrolls 300. Because they serve different ages, their all-grades scores are not an age-for-age comparison. The clearest takeaway is that results depend on the school and subject: elementary scores are well above state levels in both reported subjects, while the high school’s strongest results are in math.
Ellsworth Elementary stands out in 2025–26: its all-grades ELA proficiency was 78%, 32 points above the state, and math was 65%, 24 points above. At Ellsworth High, math was 54%, 13 points above the state, and science was 43%, 5 points above; ELA was 44%, about 2 points below. The high school’s all-grades figure hides a sharp grade-level contrast: grade 10 math was 60%, 24 points above the state, while grade 10 ELA was 28%, 12 points below. Its 2023–24 graduation rate was 96%, compared with 90% statewide.
Scores improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in both schools’ reported ELA and math results. Ellsworth Elementary gained 15 points in ELA and 2 in math; Ellsworth High gained 9 in ELA, 7 in math, and 11 in science. SchoolDigger ranked the high school at the 60th percentile in 2025–26, down 5 percentile points from 2023–24 despite those recent score gains. Elementary’s available SchoolDigger rankings fell from the 87th percentile in 2018–19 to the 49th in 2021–22. Context measures differ: student-teacher ratios were 12 at Elementary and 11.8 at High, and free/reduced-lunch rates were 45% and 34%, respectively. Chronic absenteeism was below the state rate at both schools: 4% at Elementary and 8% at High, versus 18% statewide.
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