Summary:
Zip code 42406 has one listed school, A B Chandler Elementary School, serving grades K–5 in the Henderson County area. Because there is no second school in the list, parents cannot compare schools with one another; the most useful picture comes from the school’s grade-level results and comparisons with district and state results. Most important, across eight comparable grade-and-subject results, the school moved from an average 7 percentage points above the state in 2024–2025 to 5 points below it in 2025–2026.
The strongest reported 2025–2026 result was third-grade reading: 60% of students were proficient, 11 points above the state’s 49%. The weakest was fifth-grade social studies, at 27%, 11 points below the state’s 38%. Results also varied sharply by grade: fourth-grade reading was 34%, 16 points below the state, while fifth-grade math was 44%, 1 point above. Across grades 3–5, the school’s average was 35% in math, 8 points below the state average of 43%; in reading, its average was 48%, 2 points below the state’s 50%. The grade 5 writing result was suppressed, so it cannot be compared.
The broader trend includes a notable exception: third-grade reading rose from 49% in 2024–2025 to 60% in 2025–2026, improving from 2 points above the state to 11 points above. By contrast, fourth-grade math fell from 81% to 32%, the largest year-to-year drop among the comparable results. SchoolDigger’s overall ranking also declined, from the 82nd percentile and 4 stars in 2023–2024 to the 38th percentile and 2 stars in 2025–2026. Context measures include a 14.3 student-teacher ratio and 54% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was 18%, compared with 19% in the district and 24% statewide. These figures describe the school but do not explain its test results.
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