Summary:
Ada has three elementary schools serving different grade spans: Ada Ec Center serves prekindergarten through kindergarten, Hayes Elementary School serves grades 1–2, and Ada Redbud Elementary Elementary School serves grades 3–4. Together, they enroll 1,166 students, with school enrollments ranging from 360 to 414. Test scores are available only for Redbud, so the data cannot establish which Ada school scores highest or lowest. The clearest academic finding is that Redbud’s 2025–2026 math proficiency was above the state rate, while its English language arts (ELA) proficiency was below it: 27% versus 25% in math, and 21% versus 26% in ELA.
Chronic absenteeism separates the schools more clearly: Redbud had the lowest rate, at 13%, while Ada Ec Center had the highest, at 19%; Hayes was in between at 16%. Compared with the state’s 16% rate, Redbud was 3 percentage points lower and Ada Ec Center was 3 points higher; Hayes was 0.1 point higher. Redbud’s academic results also show a subject contrast: its all-grades math result was 2 points above the state, while its ELA result was 5 points below. These figures highlight different patterns, but they do not support ranking the three schools academically.
Redbud’s scores moved closer to state results from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, though its subjects changed in opposite directions: ELA rose from 19% to 21%, while math fell from 29% to 27%. SchoolDigger’s ranking history also improved, from the 7th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 35th in 2024–2025 and 40th in 2025–2026, even as math proficiency declined in the latest year. Other measures provide context for family comparisons: in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 68% at Redbud, 73% at Hayes, and 74% at Ada Ec Center; student-teacher ratios were 16.2, 15.6, and 14.2, respectively. These are observations about the schools, not explanations for their results.
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