Summary:
Zip code 74501 has three elementary schools serving prekindergarten through grade 8: Frink-Chambers Public School, Tannehill Public School and Haywood Public School. Together, they enroll 618 students. In 2025–2026, their equally weighted average proficiency was 36% in ELA and 35% in math, about 10 percentage points above the state results of 26% and 25%. But school results ranged from 24% to 43% in ELA and from 23% to 44% in math. The most important finding is that the area’s above-state averages hide meaningful differences among schools.
Haywood led ELA at 43%, just 1 point above Frink-Chambers at 42%; Tannehill was lowest at 24%. In math, Frink-Chambers led with 44%, 7 points above Haywood’s 37%, while Tannehill had 23%. Tannehill’s results were just below state levels in both subjects: 2 points lower in ELA and 2 points lower in math. Frink-Chambers also had the only reported science result, 72% compared with 30% statewide.
Results generally rose from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with Haywood making the largest gains: 16 points in ELA and 9 in math. Tannehill gained 8 points in ELA and 4 in math, while Frink-Chambers’ ELA fell 4 points even as its math rose 4. Frink-Chambers also had a notable grade-level exception: its overall math result was strong, but third-grade math proficiency was 18%, compared with 33% statewide. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Frink-Chambers rose from the 64th in 2023–2024 to the 87th in 2025–2026. Student-teacher ratios in 2024–2025 ranged from 7.8 at Haywood to 14.2 at Frink-Chambers; free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 77%, 72% and 61% at Haywood, Tannehill and Frink-Chambers, respectively. These measures offer context, not explanations for the schools’ results.
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