Summary:
Zip code 41721 has one listed school, Buckhorn School, an alternative school serving kindergarten through grade 12 with 320 students. In 2025–2026, its graduation rate was 96%, close to the 94% state rate and the 96% rate in Perry County. The more pressing concern is attendance: 35% of students were chronically absent, compared with 24% statewide, making absenteeism the clearest warning sign for families.
There is no school-to-school leader or lower-performing school to compare in this one-school list. Within Buckhorn School’s latest reported results, mathematics was its strongest broad comparison with the state: the average was 50%, versus 41% statewide, an 8-point advantage. Results varied by grade, however: fourth-grade math was 67% versus 43% statewide, while tenth-grade math was 39% versus 40%. Reading was 13 points above the state in grade 6 but 10 points below in grade 7. Writing is the clearest weak spot: the only latest result, fifth grade, was 20%, 15 points below the state’s 35%. These grade-level comparisons do not amount to rankings among schools.
Results shifted sharply in some grades from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while the overall state-relative advantage changed little. Across 16 comparable subject-and-grade results, Buckhorn’s average advantage narrowed by about 1 point, from 6 points to 5. For example, tenth-grade reading rose from 31% to 61%, while the state result increased from 47% to 49%; eighth-grade editing and mechanics fell from 77% to 45%, while the state result dropped from 49% to 42%. Context figures describe the school but do not explain its results: the student–teacher ratio was 14.3:1 in 2024–2025, and 81% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Because only one school is listed, families cannot use these data to compare Buckhorn with other schools in the zip code.
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