Summary:
ZIP code 74120 has two schools labeled elementary: Deborah Brown Charter Elementary School serves pre-K through grade 3, and Sankofa Middle School serves grades 3–5. Both report 2025–2026 proficiency above the statewide figures in their all-grades results, and both have higher chronic absenteeism than the state. The headline is that Brown has the stronger reported all-grades proficiency, but the comparison is not grade-matched: Brown’s results cover grade 3, while Sankofa’s combine grades 3–5.
Brown stands out at the top of the reported results, with 94% proficiency in ELA and 82% in math, compared with 51% and 52% at Sankofa—gaps of 43 and 30 percentage points. Both schools exceed the statewide all-grades figures of 26% in ELA and 25% in math. Sankofa’s combined results conceal a wide grade difference: fifth-grade ELA and math proficiency is 77% and 73%, versus 37% and 47% in fourth grade. Fifth-grade science is a weaker spot at 31%, below the state’s 35%; Brown’s science result is not reported.
Results improved at both schools from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, especially at Sankofa: its ELA rose 33 points, from 18% to 51%, and math rose 29 points, from 23% to 52%. Brown’s ELA increased 21 points, from 73% to 94%, and math rose 6 points, from 76% to 82%. SchoolDigger’s listed Sankofa ranking moved from the 8th percentile in 2014–2015 to the 86th percentile in 2025–2026, though the ranking pools differed. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 22% at Brown and 29% at Sankofa, versus 16% statewide. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 85% at Brown and 85% at Sankofa; Brown enrolled 221 students with a 27.6 student–teacher ratio, while Sankofa enrolled 82 with a 15.1 ratio. These are contextual differences, not explanations for the results.
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