Summary:
ZIP code 40222 has six schools spanning elementary through high school, serving grades K–12 and enrolling 5,404 students; enrollment ranges from 383 at The Phoenix School of Discovery to 2,148 at Ballard High. Results vary considerably across schools rather than pointing to uniformly strong or weak performance: the overall average across reported 2025–2026 test results was 2 percentage points below the state, but that masks large differences by school and grade. The most important finding is that Lowe Elementary stood out consistently, scoring above the state in every reported subject and grade.
Lowe led the elementary comparisons: its fifth-grade math score was 70%, compared with 47% at Wilder Elementary and 43% statewide; in fifth-grade writing, Lowe scored 52% versus Wilder’s 19%. At the other end, Phoenix had 7% proficiency in seventh-grade math, 26 points below Westport Middle and 32 points below the state. Middle-school results also show a choice between schools: in seventh-grade math, Kammerer Middle scored 45%, Westport 33% and Phoenix 7%, against 39% statewide. There are subject-specific exceptions: Wilder’s fifth-grade reading was 63%, 12 points above the state, while its writing was 16 points below.
Recent trends are mixed: on the paired results available across both years, Lowe rose an average of about 10 percentage points per result and Kammerer about 2, while Ballard fell about 7 and Phoenix about 8; Westport and Wilder each fell about 1. SchoolDigger’s latest rankings place Lowe at the 91st percentile among elementary schools, compared with Wilder at the 61st; Kammerer is at the 41st percentile among middle schools, Westport at the 22nd, Ballard at the 58th among high schools and Phoenix at the 13th. Ballard’s SchoolDigger percentile fell from 90 to 58 over the three years shown, while Lowe, Wilder and Kammerer rose. The schools’ 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible rates ranged from 25% at Lowe to 57% at Westport and Phoenix; these figures are context, not an explanation for results. Reported student-teacher ratios ranged from 9 at Phoenix to 19 at Ballard.
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