Summary:
Zip code 74880 has one elementary school, Spence Memorial Elementary School, serving pre-K through grade 6, with 230 students. Because it is the only school listed, families cannot compare local schools against one another. The clearest concern is that Spence’s 2025–2026 all-grades results were below state results in all three subjects: 19% versus 26% in English language arts (ELA), 15% versus 25% in math, and 12% versus 30% in science. Its average across the subjects was 12 percentage points below the state average.
There is no peer-school leader or trailer in this one-school group; compared with the state, science is Spence’s largest current shortfall, while grade-level ELA results show a notable bright spot. In 2025–2026, fourth-grade ELA was 0% versus 22% statewide, but fifth-grade ELA was 32% versus 28% and sixth-grade ELA was 28% versus 25%. Math was below the state at every reported grade: fourth grade was 3% versus 33%, fifth grade 16% versus 28%, and sixth grade 24% versus 26%. Fifth-grade science was 12% versus 35%. These differences show why the all-grades results do not tell the whole story for every grade.
Spence’s all-grades performance fell from the prior year, and its gap with the state widened: its ELA result dropped 13 percentage points, math 5 points, and science 7 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while state results changed little. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile moved from 32 to 28 and its rating from 2 stars to 1 star; its rank changed from 417 of 614 to 450 of 626. As context, Spence had a 14.3 student-teacher ratio and 85% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 14% at Spence, compared with 10% in the Weleetka district and 16% statewide. This data set cannot show how Spence compares with other schools in the ZIP code.
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