Summary:
ZIP code 41539 has one school, Kimper Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through eighth grade and 120 students in Pike County. Its latest reported results are mixed: in 2025–2026, fifth-grade writing was 5 percentage points above the state, but fifth-grade Editing and Mechanics was 18 points below. That sharp contrast is the clearest takeaway from the available recent scores.
There is no top or bottom school to compare within the ZIP code, so the notable differences are among Kimper’s reported results. In 2025–2026, third-grade reading was 47% versus 49% statewide, and fifth-grade reading was 40% versus 51%; fifth-grade Social Studies was 30% versus 38%. In the same year, fifth-grade writing stood out positively at 40% versus 35%. Earlier results also varied by grade and subject: in 2024–2025, eighth-grade writing was 73% versus 49% statewide and eighth-grade Editing and Mechanics was 64% versus 49%, while fourth-grade reading was 36% versus 50%.
SchoolDigger’s ranking for Kimper moved down over three years, from 201 of 685 schools (71st percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024 to 418 of 685 (39th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–2025 and 468 of 684 (32nd percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026. In the one same-grade, same-subject score comparison across years, third-grade reading stayed at 47%, while the state rose from 47% to 49%. Context measures include a 10.9 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 88% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 29% at Kimper, compared with 35% in Pike County and 24% statewide; the reported dropout rate was 0%, versus 0.2% in the district and 1.0% statewide. Because the ZIP code has just one school and many 2025–2026 scores are not reported, school-to-school comparisons and broader conclusions from scores are limited.
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