Summary:
Zip code 42776 has two schools: Creekside Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5, and The Life Connection, an alternative school serving grades 4–12. The available academic results show a mixed picture at Creekside, with strong results in some grades and subjects but weaker ones in others. Most importantly, Creekside’s average across its reported results was 47% in 2025–26, compared with 44% statewide—a 3-point lead, down from a 7-point lead the prior year.
Creekside has the strongest reportable academic results in the area, although there is no fair school-to-school score comparison: The Life Connection’s school-level test results are suppressed and unknown. Creekside’s strongest state comparison in 2025–26 was grade 3 math, with 66% proficient versus 43% statewide, a 23-point advantage. Its clearest shortfall was grade 4 science, at 26% versus 40%, or 14 points below the state; grade 4 reading was also below, at 39% versus 50%.
Creekside’s results shifted unevenly from 2024–25 to 2025–26: grade 3 math rose 22 points, from 44% to 66%, while grade 5 writing fell 23 points, from 53% to 30%, and grade 5 reading fell 16 points. SchoolDigger places Creekside at the 58th percentile statewide in 2025–26, down from its 66th-percentile peak in 2024–25 but above its 50th percentile in 2023–24. Attendance is a positive contrast: Creekside’s chronic absenteeism was 11%, compared with 19% in Hardin County and 24% statewide. The schools also serve different settings: in 2024–25, Creekside enrolled 474 students with a 15.8 student-teacher ratio and 52% free/reduced lunch eligible; The Life Connection enrolled 39, had a ratio of 13 and was 92% free/reduced lunch eligible.
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