High Schools in Adair County

Adair County has two high schools: Adair County High School serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 805 students, while Adair Learning Academy serves grades 5–12 and enrolls 67. The Academy’s school-level test scores are suppressed, so its academic performance cannot be compared with the high school’s. The main takeaway is that the high school exceeds the Adair County district in all six tested subjects, but its average is about 1 point below the state average.

Adair County High School stands out most in writing: 50% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, 3 points above the state. Reading matched the state at 49%, while social studies was the clearest weakness at 32%, 5 points below. The other subjects—math, science, and editing and mechanics—were 1 to 3 points below the state. Across all six subjects, the school averaged 38% proficient, compared with 39% statewide and 36% for the district; it was 1 to 4 points above the district in each subject. The Academy cannot be placed above or below the high school based on the available test results.

Results at the high school moved in different directions between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026: math fell 11 points and reading 9, while writing and editing and mechanics each rose 6 points, and science rose 4. Its SchoolDigger percentile ranking went from 48 to 51 to 47 over the latest three supplied years, with stars changing from 2 to 3 to 2; the Academy’s latest supplied SchoolDigger ranking is older, at the 9th percentile in 2016–2017. Context also differs: in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students were 67% at the high school and 5% at the Academy, and student–teacher ratios were 14.7 and 8.3. In 2025–2026, the high school’s graduation rate was 98%, but chronic absenteeism was also high at 34%.