Summary:
Zip code 41514 has three schools in Belfry, serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Belfry Elementary, Belfry Middle School and Belfry High School. Across 26 current-year subject-and-grade tests, results averaged 7 percentage points above state results; 19 tests were above the state, six below and one equal. The most important concern for families is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 55% at the high school and 40% at the elementary school, compared with 24% statewide.
Belfry High School has the strongest average test results relative to the state, at 8 points above, and exceeded state results in five of its six tests; writing was 18 points above, while math was 3 points below. Belfry Elementary averaged 7 points above the state but had the widest variation: its results ranged from 27 points above in third-grade math to 10 points below in fifth-grade reading. Belfry Middle School averaged 4 points above the state and was above it in nine of ten tests.
The area’s overall advantage narrowed from 9 points above the state in 2024–2025 to 7 points in 2025–2026. Elementary and middle averages fell from 11 to 7 points above and from 8 to 4, respectively, while the high school rose from 7 to 8 points above. Writing remains a relative strength, though its average advantage shrank from 31 to 17 points. SchoolDigger percentile rankings rose from 53 to 67 at elementary between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026, edged up from 75 to 77 at the high school, and slipped from 68 to 66 at middle school. For context, 2024–2025 student-teacher ratios ranged from 14.9 at the high school to 16.7 at middle school; free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 58% at high school, 65% at middle and 69% at elementary. The high school’s 98% graduation rate is another positive measure, but it does not erase its attendance concern.
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