Summary:
Zip code 73443 has two elementary schools in Lone Grove: Lone Grove Primary Elementary School serves pre-K through grade 2, and Lone Grove Intermediate School serves grades 3–5; together they enroll 742 students. Only Intermediate has test results in the supplied data, so the scores cannot show which school performs better overall. The clearest academic finding is Intermediate’s strong science performance: in 2025–2026, 55% were proficient, compared with 30% statewide—a 25-point advantage.
Intermediate stands out positively against the state, particularly in science, but its grade 5 math result is a notable weakness. In 2025–2026, its all-grades results were 34% in English Language Arts and 29% in math, compared with 26% and 25% statewide. Science was its strongest subject at 55% versus 30%. The grade-level results show why the overall math figure needs context: grade 3 matched the state at 33%, grade 4 was 36% versus 33%, and grade 5 was 17% versus 28%, an 11-point shortfall. Intermediate’s English Language Arts results were above the state in every tested grade, by 5 points in grade 3, 8 in grade 4, and 10 in grade 5.
Results changed in mixed directions over time: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Intermediate’s science proficiency rose from 54% to 55% and its state advantage grew from 24 to 25 points; English Language Arts rose from 33% to 34%, while math fell from 35% to 29%. SchoolDigger gives the Lone Grove district 4 stars and a rank of 92 out of 450, at the 80th percentile. Intermediate’s SchoolDigger percentile was 57 in 2023–2024, 69 in 2024–2025, and 65 in 2025–2026, an overall gain of 8 points despite the latest-year dip. The schools’ student-teacher ratios were similar: 15.5 at Primary and 14.7 at Intermediate. Their 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible rates were also close, at 56% and 55%, respectively. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 10% at Primary and 7% at Intermediate.
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