Hammon

The Hammon area has two schools: Hammon Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 with 177 students, and Hammon High School, serving grades 9–12 with 80 students. In 2025–2026, the elementary school was above the state in all three reported subjects, while the high school was above the state in ELA and U.S. History but below it in math and science. The most important finding is that the two schools present notably different academic pictures, especially in math and science.

Hammon Elementary leads the two-school group in every shared subject: its ELA score was 48%, compared with 37% at the high school; math was 57% versus 18%; and science was 52% versus 26%. Those gaps were 11, 39, and 26 percentage points, respectively. The schools serve different grade spans, so these contrasts are descriptive rather than like-for-like comparisons. Relative to the state, the elementary school was ahead by 22 points in ELA, 32 in math, and 22 in science. Hammon High was 11 points above the state in ELA and 1 point above in U.S. History, but 7 points below in math and 4 below in science.

Results improved broadly at the elementary school from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose 16 points, math 14, and science 25. The high school’s pattern differed: ELA increased 5 points, while math fell 4 and science fell 9. Other indicators add context: in 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratios were 11.5 at the elementary school and 7.2 at the high school; both reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for that year, at 70% and 61%, respectively. SchoolDigger’s rankings show the elementary school rising from the 34th percentile in 2010–2011 to the 81st in 2020–2021; the high school was at the 70th percentile in 2025–2026. The high school’s 2024–2025 graduation rate was 87%, 10 points above the state, while 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism was 14%, compared with 5% at the elementary school.