Summary:
Zip code 41124 has one listed school, Blaine Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through eighth grade and enrolling 149 students. With no other listed school, families cannot compare local schools against one another. The most important finding is that results vary sharply by grade: seventh grade is a bright spot, while fifth-grade reading and third-grade math are much weaker.
Seventh grade stands out at the top of the reported 2025–2026 results: math was 58%, 19 points above the state’s 39%, and reading was 67%, 17 points above the state’s 50%. At the other end, fifth-grade reading was 20%, 31 points below the state’s 51%, and third-grade math was 15%, 28 points below the state’s 43%. Across reported grades, the school averaged 32% in math versus 40% statewide, and 43% in reading versus 49% statewide. These grade-level differences mean the school’s results are not uniformly strong or weak.
Across nine matched grade-and-subject results, scores rose by an average of 5 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while state results fell by an average of 1 point; Blaine’s average gap with the state improved by about 6 points, though changes differed substantially by grade. For example, seventh-grade reading rose from 33% to 67%, while sixth-grade reading fell from 69% to 43%. SchoolDigger’s ranking moved in the opposite direction, dropping from the 34th percentile in 2024–2025 to the 12th percentile in 2025–2026. The school’s student–teacher ratio was 8.7 in 2024–2025, and 80% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 35%, compared with 30% in Lawrence County and 24% statewide.
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