Summary:
ZIP code 42376 has one elementary school, Southern Oaks Elementary School, which serves prekindergarten through grade 5 and enrolls 468 students. With no other local elementary schools listed, parents cannot compare schools within the ZIP code; the available achievement comparisons are with state results. The clearest overall finding is that Southern Oaks scored above the state in all 10 reported subject-and-grade comparisons for 2025–2026.
Southern Oaks is both the top and bottom school in this one-school list by default, so that is not a meaningful local ranking. Against the state, its strongest result was grade 3 reading, with 59% proficient compared with 49% statewide—a 10-point advantage. Its smallest edge was grade 5 social studies: 42% versus 38%, or 4 points. Across all 10 comparisons, the school averaged 53% and the state 44%, a 9-point difference; the average math advantage was 11 points, compared with 8 points in reading.
Results were mixed from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: Southern Oaks’ average across the same 10 comparisons edged down from 53.4% to 52.7%, while the state average rose from 43.7% to 44.0%, narrowing the overall gap from 10 points to 9. Grade 3 reading gained 13 points, while grade 5 writing fell 12 points and social studies and editing and mechanics each fell 6 points. SchoolDigger ranks the school 180th of 684 schools (74th percentile) in 2025–2026, nearly unchanged from 175th (74th percentile) the prior year; its rating rose from 3 stars in 2023–2024 to 4 stars in each of the next two years. Other context includes a 16.7 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 54% free/reduced lunch eligible that year.
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