Summary:
ZIP code 41005 has one listed high school, ACCEL Academy, serving grades 6–12 with 154 students, so there is no second local high school for comparison. Most importantly, every one of the school’s six published 2025–26 proficiency results was below both district and state rates.
ACCEL Academy’s highest reported score was grade 7 reading at 33% proficient; its lowest was grade 11 social studies at 13%. That 20-point spread mixes different grades and subjects, rather than comparing schools or like-for-like results. The largest state gaps were in grade 11 writing, 17% versus 47% (30 points lower), and grade 10 math, 14% versus 40% (26 points lower). The smallest was grade 7 reading, 33% versus 50% (17 points lower). The school also trailed the Boone County district in all six results, by 21 to 38 points.
Recent results show some improvement, but not across every subject: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, grade 10 reading rose 9 points and grade 11 writing rose 4, while social studies fell 1 point and editing and mechanics fell 6. Across those four matched results, the average increased by 2 points, and the average gap from the state narrowed by 1 point. SchoolDigger gave the school 0 stars and ranked it 241st of 262 schools (8th percentile) in 2025–26, compared with the 7th percentile in 2024–25 and the 9th percentile in 2023–24. In 2024–25, its student-teacher ratio was 25.6:1, and 57% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. These figures provide context, but the one-school list cannot show local comparisons or establish a connection to test results.
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