Deer Creek-Lamont

Deer Creek-Lamont Elementary School serves PK–8 with 98 students, and Deer Creek-Lamont High School serves grades 9–12 with 40, together covering PK–12. The most important finding is a clear subject split: elementary results are stronger in math, while high school results lead in English and U.S. History.

In 2025–2026, elementary math proficiency was 38%, compared with 19% at the high school and 25% statewide; the elementary result was 13 points above the state, while the high school was 6 points below. In English, the high school led with 48% versus 28% at the elementary school and 26% statewide; the high school was 22 points above the state. High school U.S. History was another standout at 64%, 23 points above the state’s 41%. The high school’s 11th-grade results also exceeded state results in English (48% versus 36%), science (32% versus 21%) and U.S. History (64% versus 41%); its 11th-grade math was 19% versus 17% statewide. Because the schools serve different grades and the high school has only 40 students, all-grades school-to-school comparisons are descriptive rather than like-grade comparisons.

Recent changes were uneven: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, elementary math rose 6 points to 38% while English stayed at 28%; high school English rose 7 points to 48%, but math fell 5 points to 19% and science fell 4 points to 32%. SchoolDigger ranks the district 28th of 450 districts, in the 94th percentile, with five stars; it ranks the high school 48th of 462 schools, in the 90th percentile, compared with 98th of 439 in 2022–2023. For context, the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 70% at the elementary school and 48% at the high school; student-teacher ratios were 9.4 and 7.4, respectively. Both schools reported 12% chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026, below the state’s 16%.