Summary:
Zip code 40243 has four schools—two elementary, one middle and one high school—serving 3,670 students from elementary through high school. The results show clear differences between schools: in 2025–2026, Hite Elementary was above the state in 7 of 10 reported results, while Eastern High was below it in all six. The most important finding is that performance varies substantially by school, with Hite showing the strongest overall results and Eastern the broadest shortfall.
Hite stands out among the elementary schools, averaging 7 percentage points above state results across its listed subjects; it led Middletown Elementary in 8 of 10 same-grade comparisons, including by 34 points in grade 5 editing and mechanics. Middletown nevertheless had a notable strength in grade 5 writing, scoring 51% compared with Hite’s 43% and 35% statewide. Crosby Middle was also above state results in all three reported mathematics grades, by 7 to 11 points. Eastern was below state in every reported subject, with its largest gap in science: 12% versus 23% statewide.
Recent results and SchoolDigger rankings point in different directions across the schools. Hite’s average test result increased by 4 percentage points year over year, while Crosby’s fell by 3 points and Eastern’s by 4; Middletown’s grade 5 social studies result fell 13 points, from 44% to 31%. From 2023–2024 to 2025–2026, SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking rose from 57 to 67 for Hite and 32 to 60 for Crosby, but fell from 55 to 35 for Middletown and 71 to 35 for Eastern. For 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 33% at Hite, 49% at Middletown, 42% at Crosby and 36% at Eastern; student-teacher ratios ranged from 15.0 at Crosby to 18.9 at Hite. These are descriptive differences, not explanations for test results.
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