Hugo

Four public schools in Hugo serve prekindergarten through grade 12: Hugo Elementary School (PK–3), Hugo Intermediate (grades 4–5), Hugo Middle School (grades 6–8), and Hugo High School (grades 9–12). In 2025–2026, reported all-grades proficiency averaged 13% in ELA I, 11% in mathematics, and 19% in science, compared with state results of 26%, 25%, and 30%, respectively. The most important area-wide finding is that every reported subject-and-grade result was below its state comparison, and average results fell farther behind the state in each subject with two-year data.

The schools have different subject-area standouts. Hugo High School led in all-grades ELA I at 24%, 15 points above the other schools’ average, though 2 points below the state; Hugo Elementary School led in mathematics at 14%, 4 points above the other schools’ average and 11 below the state. Hugo Middle School had the strongest reported science result, 25%—10 points above the other reporting schools’ average and 5 below the state. At the bottom, Hugo Intermediate recorded 6% in ELA I and 8% in mathematics, respectively 20 and 17 points below state results. All-grades comparisons are descriptive because the schools serve different grade spans.

Recent trends are mixed, with declines more common than gains: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the school average fell 4 points in ELA I, 5 in mathematics, and 5 in science. Hugo Intermediate declined in all three reported subjects, while Hugo Middle School improved in all three. Context also varies: student–teacher ratios range from 13.5 at Hugo High School to 18.7 at Hugo Middle School; free/reduced lunch eligible shares in 2024–2025 range from 81% at Hugo Elementary School to 91% at Hugo Middle School. SchoolDigger percentile ranks also shifted over time—for example, Hugo High School moved from the 20th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 64th in 2024–2025 and the 28th in 2025–2026—so those rankings offer a separate, changing view of relative standing.