Summary:
Zip code 58730 has two schools serving PK through grade 12: Divide County Elementary School (PK–6, 221 students) and Divide County High School (grades 7–12, 161 students). The clearest shared strength in 2025–2026 is math: the elementary school’s all-grades proficiency range was 55–63%, above the state’s 54%, and the high school’s was 60–78%, also above the state. Reading results were less decisive: the schools’ ranges overlapped the state rate of 57%. The most important contrast is that math is a relative bright spot at both schools, while elementary science is below the state.
Divide County High School stands out most in grade 10 math, where its 60–78% proficiency range was 14–32 points above the state’s 46%. Divide County Elementary School has the clearest low result: its science range of 30–38% was 1–9 points below the state’s 39%. The elementary school’s math range was 1–9 points above the state; the high school’s was 6–24 points above. Neither school’s all-grades reading range clearly establishes an advantage: the elementary range was 50–58% and the high school’s was 40–58%, against 57% statewide.
Both schools’ test results improved substantially from 2024–2025 in math and reading, especially in math. Elementary math rose from 24% to 55–63%, while high school math rose from 10% to 60–78%; elementary science instead fell from 39% to 30–38%. SchoolDigger rankings also rebounded: the elementary school moved from the 23rd to the 57th percentile, and the high school from the 2nd to the 66th. The high school has a lower student-teacher ratio (9.4 versus 11), while both schools reported about 26% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. The high school’s 2025–2026 graduation rate was 90%, 3 points above the state; elementary chronic absenteeism was 11%, below the district’s 15% and state’s 19%. Because the schools serve different grades and the latest all-grades results are ranges, comparisons between them are not fully like-for-like.
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