Best Public Schools in Zip Code 73664

ZIP code 73664 has two schools: McMurray Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 with 210 students, and Blanche Thomas High School, serving grades 9–12 with 80 students. Their reported All Grades results cover different grade spans, so the comparisons are descriptive rather than like-for-like. The main takeaway is that neither school leads across every subject: their relative strengths change sharply from subject to subject.

Blanche Thomas High School stands out in English Language Arts I and Science, with 34% proficient in ELA I versus 18% at McMurray Elementary School, and 40% in Science versus 15%. Blanche Thomas also posted 51% in U.S. History, 10 points above the state’s 41%; no McMurray result is supplied for that subject. McMurray leads in Mathematics: 30% proficient, 18 points above Blanche Thomas’s 12% and 5 points above the state’s 25%. Blanche Thomas’s 11th-grade results show a similar subject split: it was 19 points above the state in Science and 10 points above in U.S. History, but 2 points below in ELA I and 5 below in Mathematics.

Results shifted differently at each school from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. McMurray’s Mathematics rose 8 points to 30%, while its Science score fell 11 points to 15%; Blanche Thomas’s ELA I rose 1 point to 34%, while its Mathematics and Science fell 9 and 6 points. SchoolDigger ranks Blanche Thomas 117th of 462 statewide, in the 75th percentile with four stars; it was 83rd and in the 81st percentile in 2023–2024. McMurray has the higher student–teacher ratio (15.3 versus 9.5). Their free/reduced lunch eligible shares were fairly close in 2024–2025: 64% at McMurray and 61% at Blanche Thomas.