Summary:
Zip code 73728 has one elementary school, Cherokee Elementary School, which serves prekindergarten through fifth grade and enrolls 172 students. Since it is the only school in the list, the results describe this school rather than offering a comparison among local schools. The most encouraging latest finding is that the school was above state and district results in both all-grades subjects in 2025–2026: ELA was 36%, compared with 26% statewide and 29% in the district, while math was 42%, compared with 25% statewide and 33% in the district.
Cherokee stands out most in math: its all-grades result was 17 points above the state, while its ELA result was 10 points above. Fourth-grade math was also notably higher than the state result, at 48% versus 33%; fourth-grade ELA was 26% versus 22%, and the school matched its district in both subjects. Science was the clearest exception: in 2024–2025, the school scored 26%, below the state’s 30% and the district’s 36%. Because there is just one school in the list, there is no local top-to-bottom comparison, and these results do not show how the school compares with nearby schools outside the list.
Results over time were mixed: all-grades ELA fell from 47% in 2024–2025 to 36% in 2025–2026, while math rose from 39% to 42%. The school’s lead over the state narrowed in ELA, from 21 points to 10, but widened in math, from 13 points to 17; its average lead across the two subjects narrowed by 4 points. SchoolDigger’s reported school percentile fell from the 93rd in 2020–2021 to the 69th in 2024–2025, a 24-point decline, though the number of schools ranked differed by year. For context, the school’s student–teacher ratio was 10.7 in 2024–2025, and 54% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 5% in 2025–2026, below the state’s 16% but above the district’s 3%.
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