Schools in Zip Code 67701

Zip code 67701 has three schools serving PK–12: Colby Elementary (PK–4), Colby Middle School (grades 5–8), and Colby Senior High (grades 9–12). In 2025–26, the schools’ equal-weight average proficiency was 38% in ELA and 35% in math, below state results of 46% and 41%. The biggest academic concern is Colby Middle School, where ELA proficiency was 20 points below the state.

Colby Elementary led the schools in both subjects, with 47% proficient in ELA and 43% in math—about 1 and 2 points above state results. Colby Middle School had the lowest ELA result, 26%, and its math result of 32% was 9 points below the state. Colby Senior High had 43% proficiency in ELA and 31% in math; its grade-10 ELA result was 2 points above the state, though its all-grade science result, 28%, was below the state’s 38%. Middle led the two schools reporting science, at 35%. Results vary within grade spans too: Elementary’s grade-3 ELA was below state results, while its grade-4 ELA was above them.

Recent changes were mixed rather than consistent: Elementary’s ELA rose 6 points, while Senior High’s fell 8; Middle’s math climbed 8 points. Across the schools, average ELA declined 1 point as the state result rose 1, while average math rose 2 points, about matching the state’s increase. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking for Middle fell from 52 to 20 over three years, while Elementary’s rose from 28 to 43; Senior High rose to 68 before moving down to 46. Other measures also differ: chronic absenteeism was 6% at Elementary, 14% at Middle, and 20% at Senior High, compared with 18% statewide. Student-teacher ratios were 15.3 at Elementary and 13.6 at each of the other schools; reported free/reduced-lunch rates were 39%, 30%, and 35%, respectively.