Summary:
Three schools in 40117 serve students from prekindergarten through grade 6 in Meade County, with enrollments ranging from 299 to 403. In 2025–2026, their matched-grade averages were above the state average in both math and reading, but the advantage was stronger in math: 50% versus 43% in math and 53% versus 51% in reading. The most important takeaway is that results vary sharply by grade, with Ekron Elementary standing out in upper grades while other results are much less consistent.
Ekron led Flaherty Elementary in math in grades 4, 5, and 6 by 9, 35, and 24 points, respectively; it also led in reading by 9 points in grade 5 and 26 in grade 6. Ekron’s grade 6 scores were especially strong against the state: 71% in math versus 42%, and 82% in reading versus 54%. The clearest low results were at Flaherty Elementary, where grade 5 math was 28%—15 points below the state—and writing was 19%—16 points below. Results are not uniformly strong at Ekron: its grade 3 reading was 41%, 8 points below the state and 11 below Flaherty Primary. Flaherty Primary’s grade 3 math and reading were both above state results, though below district results.
Year-to-year changes were mixed rather than consistently upward or downward: Ekron’s grade 6 reading rose 14 points, while its grade 3 reading fell 17; Flaherty Primary’s grade 3 math rose 6 points, and Flaherty Elementary’s grade 5 math fell 9. The area’s reading advantage over the state narrowed from 5 points to 2, while its math advantage stayed about 7 points. SchoolDigger ranked Ekron 197 of 684 schools in 2025–2026, down 79 places from 118 of 685 the prior year; it retained four stars. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 54% at Ekron, 51% at Flaherty Elementary, and 60% at Flaherty Primary, while student-teacher ratios ranged from 16.5 to 17.4 at the two schools serving grades 4–6; these measures do not provide a dependable shortcut for predicting a particular grade’s results.
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