Best Public Schools in Zip Code 73753

ZIP code 73753 has two schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Kremlin-Hillsdale Elementary School (PK–8) and Kremlin-Hillsdale High School (grades 9–12). Across the three shared subjects in 2025–2026, the schools’ unweighted average proficiency was about 28%, compared with 27% for the state, just 1 percentage point higher. The year before, their average was 10 points above the state. The clearest overall finding is that the schools’ earlier advantage over state results nearly disappeared in the latest year.

The schools stand out in different subjects: in 2025–2026, the high school’s all-grades ELA result was 44%, versus 21% at the elementary school, a 23-point difference; its U.S. History result was 60%, 19 points above the state. The elementary school led in math, with 29% proficient compared with 21% at the high school and 25% statewide. Science was a shared weakness: both schools were below the state’s 30%, at 24% and 26%, respectively. The high school’s grade 11 results were above state grade 11 results in every reported subject, by 4 to 19 points. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate was 97%, compared with 78% statewide, a 20-point gap. All-grades results cover different grade spans, so school-to-school comparisons are useful context rather than like-for-like grade comparisons.

Results shifted notably over time, especially in science: the elementary school fell from 54% proficient in 2024–2025 to 24% in 2025–2026, while the state stayed at 30%; the high school’s science score also dropped, from 44% to 26%. In contrast, elementary math rose 5 points, to 29%, while high school ELA remained stronger than the elementary result in both years. SchoolDigger ranks the Kremlin-Hillsdale district 45th of 450 districts (90th percentile, five stars); the high school ranked 69th of 462 schools (85th percentile, four stars) in 2025–2026, after ranking 28th of 463 (five stars) the year before. In 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios were 16.2 at the elementary school and 12.3 at the high school; free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 49% and 41%, respectively. These are differences between schools, not evidence that any characteristic caused a result.