Scotland School District 04-3

Scotland School District 04-3 has three small schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Scotland Elementary - 02 (PK–4), Scotland Middle School - 05 (grades 5–8), and Scotland High School - 01 (grades 9–12). Together they enroll 262 students. The clearest area-wide finding is that elementary and middle-school math results differ sharply: elementary is well above the state, while middle is below it, leaving a two-school average that is above state but hides a 32-point school-to-school gap.

Scotland Elementary stands out among the two schools with comparable Smarter Balanced results: 63% of students were proficient in math and 50% in ELA in 2025–26, compared with 31% and 44% at Scotland Middle. Elementary’s math result was 19 points above state, while Middle’s was 13 points below; their ELA results were 1 point above and 5 points below state, respectively. Middle’s exception is science, where 44% proficiency was 1 point above state. Scotland High has a mixed grade-11 ACT profile: science was 57%, 12 points above state, while ELA was 43% and math 21%, respectively 6 and 13 points below.

Recent results moved in different directions by school and subject: the elementary-middle average fell 6 points in ELA from 2024–25, while math fell 1 point and remained above state. Middle science rose 8 points, moving from below to 1 point above state. SchoolDigger ranks Elementary 76th of 203 schools (63rd percentile, 3 stars), Middle 105th of 151 (30th percentile, 2 stars), and High 80th of 130 (38th percentile, 2 stars). Student-teacher ratios are 13.9 at Elementary, 13.6 at Middle, and 7.5 at High. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares for 2024–25 were 27% at Elementary, 42% at Middle, and 44% at High; these are descriptive context, not an explanation for results. Chronic absenteeism was 1% at Elementary and 9% at Middle, versus 20% statewide. High’s prior-year scores used a different assessment, so they do not show a like-for-like trend.