Best Public Schools in Zip Code 41472

Schools in zip code 41472 include seven schools—three elementary, one middle and three high schools—with enrollments ranging from 23 to 527 students. The clearest overall pattern is that reading is the strongest measured subject, averaging 10 points above state results, while writing is weakest, averaging 6 points below state. But performance varies substantially by school, grade and subject: the most important finding is that Wrigley Elementary School is the broadest academic standout among the elementary schools.

Wrigley Elementary School led elementary grade 3 math with 64%, compared with 40% at East Valley Elementary School and 27% at Morgan Central Elementary School; it also led grade 3 reading at 74%. East Valley Elementary School had the strongest single result: 79% in grade 5 social studies, 41 points above state, but its grade 5 writing score was 29%, 6 points below state. Morgan Central Elementary School stood out in grade 4 and 5 reading, at 68% and 67%, yet its grade 3 math result was the lowest among the elementary schools. At the secondary level, Morgan County Middle School was above state in grade 6 and 7 reading but 20 points below state in grade 8 editing and mechanics. Morgan County High School was near state in grade 10 reading and below state in its other reported subjects.

Recent trends reinforce that schools are moving in different directions: across 40 results with exact scores in both years, local scores rose by just 6 points in total, while Wrigley Elementary School gained 109 points across eight matched results and East Valley Elementary School fell 49 across seven. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings put Wrigley at 85, East Valley at 74 and Morgan Central at 63 in 2025–26; Wrigley rose from 56 the prior year, while Morgan County Middle School declined to 25 from 40 two years earlier. Wrigley and Morgan Central have similar enrollment, student-teacher ratios (15.0 and 14.9) and 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares (69% each), yet Wrigley scored higher in six of nine comparable tests. Several results at the two smallest high schools are suppressed, limiting comparisons there.