Summary:
ZIP code 74730 has two Calera schools: Calera Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 with 754 students, and Calera High School, serving grades 9–12 with 227 students. The latest test results are for 2025–2026, and the schools show different strengths by subject rather than a uniformly strong or weak pattern. Both are above the state in English Language Arts I, but their math and science results fall on opposite sides of state results. The most important takeaway is that performance varies sharply by subject and grade, especially in mathematics.
Calera Elementary stands out in science: its 50% result was 20 points above the state, while Calera High scored 19%, 11 points below the state—a 31-point difference between the schools. High school led in English Language Arts I, scoring 43% to elementary’s 36%; both exceeded the state result of 26%. Elementary led in mathematics, 27% to 19%, with elementary 2 points above the state and high school 6 below. Elementary grade-level results also varied: grade 4 mathematics was 48%, 15 points above the state, while grade 8 mathematics was 4%, 13 points below; grade 8 science was 17 points above the state.
Recent changes were mixed: elementary science rose 11 points, from 39% to 50%, while high school science fell 15 points, from 34% to 19%; high school mathematics rose 10 points and U.S. History fell 13. SchoolDigger placed elementary in the 74th percentile in 2025–2026, up from the 58th in 2023–2024, and high school in the 76th, up from the 38th; both were slightly below their 2024–2025 percentiles. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 78% at each school; student–teacher ratios were 17:1 at elementary and 12:1 at high school. Chronic absenteeism was below the state at both schools in 2025–2026, and high school’s 2024–2025 graduation rate was 96%, compared with 78% statewide.
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