Summary:
Zip code 67457 has one high school, Little River High, serving grades 9–12 with 89 students. Its 2025–26 results show a clear academic strength: proficiency in mathematics was 40 points above the state rate, and ELA was 31 points above.
Little River High is both the local leader and the local trailing school by default, since no other high schools are listed in the area. It scored 81% in mathematics and 77% in ELA, compared with state rates of 41% and 46%. Science is the relative weak spot: proficiency was 48%, 9 points above the state rate but 23 points below the Little River district rate. Other outcomes compare favorably with the state: graduation was 94%, 4 points higher, and chronic absenteeism was 7%, 10 points lower. Absenteeism was 2 points higher than the district’s 6%.
ELA and mathematics results rose sharply from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA increased 18 points, from 59% to 77%, and mathematics rose 26 points, from 55% to 81%. State gains were smaller—1 point in ELA and 2 in mathematics. SchoolDigger’s ranking also improved, from 48th of 318 schools in 2023–24 to 26th of 332 in 2024–25 and 8th of 340 in 2025–26; its reported percentile rose from 85 to 98. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 8.9 in 2024–25, and 26% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch.
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