Summary:
ZIP code 42265 has one school, Olmstead Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through eighth grade with 398 students in the Logan County district. With no other schools in the ZIP code, families can look at the school’s grade-level results and comparisons with district and state figures. Olmstead’s clearest overall strength is math: its average across grades 3–8 was 45%, compared with 42% statewide.
Seventh grade stands out most: 59% were proficient in math, 20 points above the state, and 62% in reading, 12 points above. Results are less strong in some other grades: fifth-grade math was 29%, 14 points below the state, and seventh-grade science was 27%, 1 point below. Across the listed grades, writing averaged 35% and social studies 32%, each 7 points below the state; reading was about even with the state. These differences show that results vary by both grade and subject.
Recent results are mixed, with the school’s advantage narrowing in math and reading. Olmstead’s math average fell from 51% in 2024–2025 to 45% in 2025–2026, while the state average slipped from 42% to 42%; its lead narrowed from 9 points to 4. Reading fell from 51% to 49%, while the state rose from 48% to 49%. SchoolDigger ranked Olmstead 398th of 684 schools, at the 42nd percentile with 2 stars, in 2025–2026, down from 240th of 685, the 65th percentile and 3 stars, the year before. Other context: the student–teacher ratio was 14.7 in 2024–2025, and 45% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch that year. Chronic absenteeism was 10%, below the district’s 13% and the state’s 24%.
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