Summary:
McCook Central School District 43-7 includes four schools serving elementary, middle and high school grades, with 455 students across the district. The latest reported test results are from 2025–26: three schools have all-grades results, while the high school’s reported scores are from the ACT. The biggest concern in the current results is math: the average across the three schools with reported scores is 31%, compared with 44% statewide—a 13-point gap.
McCook Central Elementary stands out academically, leading the reported schools with 53% in ELA and 46% in math. Those scores are 7 and 17 points above McCook Central Middle, respectively. Goldenview Colony has the lowest reported scores, at 25% in ELA and 19% in math—28 and 27 points below the elementary school, and 24 and 25 points below the state. The middle school is 3 points below the state in ELA and 15 points below in math. At the elementary school, results are stronger in grades 3 and 4, but grade 5 scores are below the state in both subjects. Goldenview’s current science and grade-level results are suppressed.
Recent trends differ by school and subject. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, the elementary school’s ELA and math scores rose by 4 and 5 points; the middle school’s ELA rose by 5 points, while math fell by 1. Goldenview’s ELA fell by 6 points and math by 13. Across the three schools with comparable results, the average ELA gap to the state narrowed by 3 points, while the math gap widened by 3. The high school combines a 100% graduation rate with mixed ACT results: math is 1 point above the state, while ELA is 14 points below and science 23 points below; these ACT results should not be compared directly with other schools’ Smarter Balanced scores. As context, reported student-teacher ratios range from 12.5 to 23.3. Free/reduced lunch-eligible shares in 2024–25 were 25% at the elementary school, 26% at the middle school and 17% at the high school; these are observations, not explanations for test results.
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