Schools in Zip Code 67456

ZIP code 67456 has four schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Soderstrom Elementary (PK–4), Smoky Valley Middle School (grades 5–8), Smoky Valley High (grades 9–12), and the K–12 alternative Smoky Valley Virtual Charter School. Enrollment ranges from 243 at the high school to 402 at the virtual school. The most important finding is that the supplied test results vary sharply across schools, especially in math, rather than clustering around one level.

Soderstrom leads in all-grades ELA and math, with 62% and 57% proficient—about 16 points above state in each subject. Smoky Valley Middle also stands out, at 59% in ELA and 49% in math, respectively 13 and 8 points above state. Smoky Valley High has the strongest reported science result, 52%, or 14 points above state. At the other end, Smoky Valley Virtual scores 31% in ELA, 13% in math, and 16% in science—15, 28, and 22 points below state. The top-to-bottom gaps are 32 points in ELA, 44 in math, and 36 in science. These all-grades results cover different grade spans, so shared-grade results are more useful for direct comparisons.

Recent trends are mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, middle-school ELA rose 11 points and math 5, while high-school ELA fell 15 and math 21; Soderstrom also declined modestly, while the virtual school improved 7 points in ELA and 3 in math, remaining below state. SchoolDigger rankings rose for the middle school, from the 52nd to the 80th percentile, and the high school, from the 52nd to the 81st; Soderstrom moved from the 86th to the 79th percentile. Shared-grade results show a more nuanced virtual-school picture: its eighth-grade ELA was 50%, close to the middle school’s 52%, but its eighth-grade math was 10% versus 27%. The high school’s 2023–24 graduation rate was 99%, while its latest all-grades math result was below state. The high and middle schools have similar lunch rates, about 37%, and ratios of 10.1 and 14.0 students per teacher; these are context, not explanations of performance.