Summary:
ZIP code 73118 has six listed schools: one elementary school, two middle schools and three high schools; the virtual elementary and high schools have especially large enrollments, while the other schools serve 31 to 400 students. The clearest area-wide concern is math: the six-school average was 8% proficient in 2025–26, 17 percentage points below the state’s 25%.
Harding Fine Arts High School is the strongest overall standout: it led the listed schools in ELA (40%), science (35%) and U.S. History (55%), exceeding state results by 14, 5 and 14 points, respectively, though its 13% math score was 12 points below the state. SchoolDigger ranked it 97th of 462 schools, in the 79th percentile. At the other end, Putnam Heights Academy High School had the lowest results in all four subjects: 4% ELA, 4% math, 4% science and 8% U.S. History—26, 21, 26 and 33 points below state results. It ranked 454th of 462, in the 2nd percentile. Harding Fine Arts Middle School had a relative strength in seventh-grade ELA (31%, versus 23% statewide), while Epic Charter Virtual Elementary School scored 24% in science, below the state’s 30%.
Results are not moving uniformly: the group’s ELA average slipped from 18% to 18% between 2024–25 and 2025–26 (a 1-point decline), and math stayed at 8%; science rose from 18% to 20%, and high-school U.S. History from 29% to 30%. Among high schools, Harding also had the highest 2024–25 graduation rate, 81%, compared with 78% statewide; Putnam Heights reported 47% graduation and 97% chronic absenteeism in 2025–26, versus 16% statewide absenteeism. As context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 63% at Harding Fine Arts High and 93% at Putnam Heights Academy High; these figures describe the schools, not why their results differ.
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