Summary:
Zip code 74456 has two Preston Elementary School and Preston High School, serving PK–8 and grades 9–12, with 590 students enrolled altogether. The clearest overall standout is the high school: in 2025–2026 it scored above the state in every reported subject, with advantages of 26 percentage points in ELA, 7 in math, 11 in science, and 24 in U.S. History. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate was 98%, compared with 78% statewide. The high school has the strongest overall academic results in the supplied data.
The high school also leads the elementary school in each of the three subjects both report: 52% versus 26% in ELA, 32% versus 31% in math, and 41% versus 28% in science. The elementary school’s all-grades results are at the state level in ELA (26%), above it in math (31% versus 25%), and below it in science (28% versus 30%). Within elementary grades, the strongest state comparisons are grade 8 math, 32% versus 17%, and grade 4 ELA, 34% versus 22%; weaker results include grade 6 math, 18% versus 26%, and science in grades 5 and 8, which trails by 8 and 7 points. These all-grades comparisons are not same-grade comparisons: the elementary school reports grades 3–8, while the high school’s tested grade shown is grade 11.
Recent test-score trends favor the high school, whose results rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 by 10 points in ELA, 5 in math, 9 in science, and 7 in U.S. History. The elementary school’s math rose 3 points, while ELA fell 2 and science fell 4. SchoolDigger ranks the high school 15th of 462, in the 97th percentile with five stars; the elementary school ranks 268th of 626, in the 57th percentile with three stars. As context, in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 70% at the elementary school and 59% at the high school. Their student–teacher ratios were 16.5 and 21, respectively.
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