Summary:
Zip code 41649 has two schools: May Valley Elementary School, serving pre-K through eighth grade, and Renaissance Learning Center, an alternative school serving kindergarten through 12th grade. The clearest direct comparison is in seventh-grade reading: 61% of May Valley students were proficient, compared with 11% at Renaissance, a 50-percentage-point gap.
May Valley stands out in the available 2025–2026 results: it exceeded the state proficiency rate in 19 of 20 grade-and-subject comparisons. Its average across those results was 51%, versus 43% for the matching state results. Its strongest listed advantage was fifth-grade math, at 63% compared with 43% statewide; its exception was fourth-grade math, at 34% versus 43%. Renaissance had much lower reported reading proficiency in the other directly comparable grade too: 13% in eighth grade, versus May Valley’s 52%, a 39-point gap. These are the clearest school-to-school comparisons available; many of Renaissance’s other grade-and-subject results are suppressed or not reported.
May Valley’s overall average fell by 2 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while the state average fell by less than 1 point; its lead over the state narrowed by about 1 point. Subject trends differed: May Valley’s science average rose by 9 points, while writing fell by 12 points. SchoolDigger lists May Valley at the 71st percentile with 4 stars in 2025–2026, down from the 76th percentile the prior year; its rank shifted from 165 of 685 to 195 of 684. The schools also differ in size and context: May Valley enrolls 508 students and has a 16.9 student-teacher ratio, while Renaissance enrolls 174 and has a 9.4 ratio. Both report free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025—72% at May Valley and 93% at Renaissance, a 20-point difference; these figures describe context, not causes.
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