Summary:
Schools in zip code 73131 include two schools in the Harding Independence (Charter) district: an elementary school serving PK–4 and a high school serving grades 9–12, with no middle school in this list. The clearest strength is the high school’s 2025–2026 11th-grade proficiency, which exceeded state results in all four reported subjects, by 3 to 23 percentage points. But its 2024–2025 graduation rate was 45%, compared with 78% statewide—a 33-point shortfall—making graduation the most important outcome for families to examine alongside test scores.
Harding Charter Preparatory High School stands out for 11th-grade English Language Arts I (ELA I), with 54% proficient versus 36% statewide, and U.S. History, with 64% versus 41%. Its all-grades results are less strong in mathematics and science: 24% in each, compared with 25% and 30% statewide. At HARDING CHARTER PREPARATORY Elementary School at KELLEY, 3rd-grade ELA I matched the state at 26%, while mathematics was 21% versus 33%, a 12-point gap. SchoolDigger gave the high school five stars and a statewide rank of 47 out of 462 in 2025–2026.
The high school’s all-grades proficiency fell from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in every subject: by 8 points in ELA I, 13 in mathematics, 16 in science, and 14 in U.S. History; its average advantage over the state narrowed from 23 points to 11. SchoolDigger’s rank also shifted from 8 of 463 (98th percentile) to 47 of 462 (90th percentile). Attendance presents a different contrast: chronic absenteeism was 8% at the high school and 20% at the elementary school, versus 16% statewide. In 2024–2025, student–teacher ratios were 17 at the high school and 15 at the elementary school; both reported free/reduced lunch eligible for that year, at 60% and 47%, respectively. Because the schools serve different grade spans, comparisons between them are descriptive rather than like-for-like.
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