Summary:
ZIP code 67756 has two St Francis Elementary and St Francis High, together serving 297 students from prekindergarten through grade 12. In 2025–26, High’s reported all-grades proficiency rates were higher in ELA, math, and science. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades results are not grade-for-grade comparisons. The most important finding is that results vary substantially between the schools and across subjects, with High ahead overall but not consistently strong in every grade or subject.
St Francis High stands out over St Francis Elementary in all three all-grades subjects: High scored 44% in ELA, 47% in math, and 42% in science, compared with Elementary’s 28%, 33%, and 3%—gaps of 16, 15, and 39 percentage points. High was 6 points above the state in math and 4 points above in science, while 2 points below in ELA; Elementary was below the state by 18 points in ELA, 8 in math, and 35 in science. Grade-level results add important exceptions: High’s grade 10 ELA was 63%, 22 points above the state, while its grade 8 ELA was 12%, 31 points below. Elementary’s grade 3 math was 47%, 5 points above the state, but grade 4 math was 15%, 29 points below.
Recent trends are mixed. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, High’s math rose 10 percentage points, while ELA fell 2 and science fell 10; Elementary’s math rose 4 points, while ELA fell 7 and science fell 22. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking for High rose from 13 in 2023–24 to 94 in 2025–26, while Elementary’s moved from 23 to 14. High has a slightly lower student-teacher ratio (11.6 versus 12.5) and higher free/reduced-lunch rate (54% versus 47%); these are contextual observations, not explanations for score differences. Attendance is another notable contrast: chronic absenteeism was 42% at High, compared with 12% at Elementary and 18% statewide. High’s 94% graduation rate is a positive result, but it describes a different measure and year from absenteeism.
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