Best Public Schools in Zip Code 73840

Schools in ZIP code 73840 include two Fargo Public Schools: Fargo Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 with 155 students, and Fargo High School, serving grades 9–12 with 71 students. The latest reported results are positive across both schools: every 2025–2026 subject score provided is above its listed state result. The most important finding is that both schools currently outperform the state in all reported subjects.

Fargo High School leads in the two subjects both schools reported for 2025–2026: its English Language Arts I proficiency was 46%, compared with 35% at the elementary school, and its math proficiency was 32%, compared with 27%. Both schools were above state results in those subjects, though by different margins: the high school was ahead by 20 points in ELA and 7 in math, while the elementary school was ahead by 9 and 2 points. The elementary school’s standout was science in 2024–2025, when 45% were proficient—27 points above the high school’s 18% and 15 points above the state. The schools serve different grade spans, so these school-to-school results are descriptive rather than grade-matched comparisons.

Results improved at both schools between the two reported years, with especially large gains at Fargo High School: ELA rose 15 points, math 22, science 14, and U.S. History 5; its latest reported grade 11 scores also exceeded state results in every subject. The elementary school gained 6 points in ELA and 2 in math. SchoolDigger’s high school ranking rose from the 12th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 86th in 2025–2026; its 2024–2025 graduation rate was 97%, about 20 points above the state rate. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 79% at the elementary school and 73% at the high school; student-teacher ratios were 10.9 and 10.3, respectively. These figures describe school context, not what explains achievement differences.