Meade School District 46-1

The Meade School District 46-1 has 11 schools: eight elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school, serving students from elementary through high school. Among the six schools with reported 2025–2026 all-grades results, average proficiency was above state rates in both ELA (55% versus 49%) and math (59% versus 44%); math is the district’s clearest relative strength.

Central Meade County School - 09 leads the reported ELA and math results, at 67% and 79%; those scores are 18 and 35 percentage points above state rates. Piedmont Valley Elementary - 05 also performs strongly among larger elementary schools, with 54% in ELA and 64% in math. Results are not uniformly high: Sturgis Elementary - 03 has the lowest reported ELA score, 42%, 7 points below state, while Sturgis Williams Middle School - 02 has the lowest math score, 39%, 5 points below state. Stagebarn Middle School - 10 has the highest middle-school ELA result, 57%.

Across the six schools with results in both years, average ELA proficiency rose 2 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and math rose 7 points; the average school-to-state gaps widened from 2 to 6 points in ELA and from 9 to 16 in math. Individual trends differ: Central’s results rose 20 points in ELA and 39 in math, while Whitewood Elementary - 04’s ELA fell 16 points. SchoolDigger’s Stagebarn ranking percentile climbed from 49th in 2023–2024 to 79th in 2025–2026. As context, the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible share ranged from 6% at Central to 47% at Whitewood, and the figures do not show a simple match between eligibility share and results. Sturgis Brown High School - 01’s 2025–2026 ACT proficiency was below state rates in all three subjects, even though its graduation rate was 93% versus 88% statewide and its dropout rate was 1% versus 2%. Results are unavailable for some very small schools because test figures were suppressed.