Best Public Schools in Zip Code 58348

Zip code 58348 has two small schools: Maddock Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 with 96 students, and Maddock High School, serving grades 9–12 with 38 students. In the latest results, both schools are above North Dakota in reading: elementary is at 70–78% compared with 57% statewide, and high school is at 60–78%. Math is less consistent: elementary’s 50–58% spans the state’s 54%, while high school’s 20–49% is 5–34 percentage points below it. Reading is the clearest shared strength, and high-school math is the sharpest concern.

Maddock Elementary stands out overall in SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 statewide rankings, at the 79th percentile compared with the high school’s 36th percentile, though the schools serve different grades. Grade-level results show strengths and weaker spots within each school: elementary grade 3 math is 70–88% versus 59% statewide, and reading is 70–88% versus 60%; its grade 8 math is under 40% versus 50% statewide, and science is under 40% versus 43%. At the high school, grade 10 reading is 60–78% versus 52% statewide, while the math and science ranges do not settle whether results are above or below state figures. The latest all-grades science results also do not establish which school leads: elementary is 20–39% and high school is under 40%, against 39% statewide.

Elementary’s math and reading results rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while science fell sharply: math went from 29% to 50–58%, reading from 54% to 70–78%, and science from 75% to 20–39%. Its SchoolDigger percentile also climbed over three reported years, from 59 to 67 to 79; the high school’s ranking has been less steady, moving from 28 to 86 and then 36. For context, both schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares in 2024–2025—32.3% at elementary and 31.6% at high school—and the figures do not explain the differences in results. Their student-teacher ratios were 9.9 and 10.3, respectively, and both reported $23,468 per student in spending. The high school’s 100% graduation rate in 2024–2025 matches its district’s rate, while the state’s reported 87% is for 2025–2026. Because the schools serve different grade spans and many latest scores are ranges, all-grades comparisons cannot identify an exact school-to-school gap or a leader in every subject.