Summary:
Caney has two schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Caney Elementary School (PK–8, 157 students) and Caney High School (grades 9–12, 83 students). The clearest academic concern is the high school’s below-state grade 11 proficiency in all four reported subjects: 20% in ELA I versus 36% statewide, 3% in math versus 17%, 3% in science versus 21%, and 13% in U.S. History versus 41%.
Caney Elementary stands out for the stronger reported All Grades math and science results, while Caney High has the lowest reported results in those subjects. In 2025–2026, elementary math was 28% versus 3% at high school, a 25-point difference; science was 22% versus 3%, a 19-point difference. Elementary math was 3 points above the state All Grades rate, while high school U.S. History was 28 points below the state rate. The schools serve different grade spans, so their All Grades results are not a like-for-like comparison. A positive contrast for the high school is graduation: 82% in 2024–2025, 5 points above the state rate.
Recent results show declines in several subjects, with a small exception in elementary math. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, elementary ELA I fell 4 points and science fell 5, while math rose 1; high school ELA I fell 4 and U.S. History fell 5, while math and science stayed at 3%. SchoolDigger’s high-school percentile ranking declined from 23 in 2023–2024 to 4 in 2025–2026; the elementary school’s available history was at the 41st percentile in both 2014–2015 and 2020–2021. In 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios were similar: 11.9 at elementary and 12.0 at high school. Both reported free/reduced lunch eligible for that year—76% of elementary students and 68% of high school students. These are contextual figures, not explanations of achievement.
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