Summary:
ZIP code 41553 has one elementary school, Phelps Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 6 with 293 students in the Pike County area. In 2025–26, Phelps’s average proficiency in grades 3–6 was 63% in math and 70% in reading, compared with 43% and 51% statewide. The clearest overall finding is that Phelps scored above the state in every reported subject and grade; its grade 4 science result cannot be compared.
There is no local top or bottom school to distinguish, but results vary across Phelps’s grades and subjects. Its strongest state-relative result was grade 5 Editing and Mechanics, with 73% proficient versus 48% statewide, a 25-point advantage; it was also 5 points above the district. Math and reading averages were respectively 6 and 2 points above the district, as well as 20 and 19 points above the state. Some results were less strong relative to the district: grade 5 Writing was 41%, 7 points below the district, and Social Studies was 50%, 2 points below. Math proficiency ranged from 50% in grade 5 to 74% in grade 3, while reading was steadier, from 67% to 74%.
Recent trends are mixed rather than uniformly improving. The four-grade math average rose by 2 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, but grade 4 math fell 17 points while grade 3 rose 21. Across the three grades with reading results in both years, the average fell by 2 points, and Phelps’s advantage over the state narrowed. SchoolDigger gave Phelps 4 stars and ranked it 81st of 684 schools, at the 88th percentile, in 2025–26. As context, in 2024–25, 85% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible, and the student-teacher ratio was 12.7:1; neither figure explains the test results. Only one school is listed, and grade 4 science proficiency was suppressed.
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