Summary:
Zip code 42728 has five schools—two elementary schools, one middle school and two high schools—serving students from the primary grades through high school. Among the three schools with reported proficiency results, performance varies by grade and subject: some results exceed state benchmarks while others fall well below them. The most important finding is the pronounced writing weakness at Adair County Elementary School, where fifth-grade proficiency is 25 points below the state.
Adair County Middle School has the strongest measured result: sixth-grade math proficiency is 57%, compared with 42% statewide, a 15-point advantage. Adair County Elementary School also stands out in fourth-grade science, at 49% versus 40% statewide, but its fifth-grade writing result is 10% versus 35%. Adair County High School is 3 points above the state in eleventh-grade writing; its tenth-grade math result is 3 points below. Taken together, the reported results show that no school is uniformly ahead or behind across subjects.
Recent SchoolDigger rankings improved at Middle and Elementary: Middle rose from the 37th state percentile in 2023–2024 to the 53rd in 2025–2026, while Elementary rose from the 41st percentile in both earlier listed years to the 53rd. High’s latest ranking was the 47th percentile, down from 51st the prior year. High also pairs a strong graduation rate—98%, versus 94% statewide—with chronic absenteeism of 34%, compared with 24% statewide. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 71% at Primary and Elementary, 66% at Middle and 67% at High; student-teacher ratios ranged from 13.4 at Primary to 14.7 at High. Adair County Primary Center has no test scores in the supplied list, and Adair Learning Academy’s school-level results are suppressed, so neither can be compared on proficiency.
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