Summary:
Zip code 57026 has two elementary schools: Elkton Elementary - 02, serving prekindergarten through grade 6 with 186 students, and Newdale Colony Elementary - 04, serving kindergarten through grade 8 with 29 students. In 2025–2026, their average all-grades ELA result was 52%, above the state’s 49%, while their average math result was 35%, well below the state’s 44%. The clearest area-wide takeaway is that ELA is stronger than the state average, but mathematics is a notable concern.
Newdale Colony led in both subjects, though its advantage was much clearer in ELA: it scored 57%, 10 percentage points above Elkton and 8 points above the state. Elkton’s 47% ELA result was 2 points below the state. In math, Newdale’s lead over Elkton was just 1 point, and both schools fell short of the state—by 8 points at Newdale and 9 at Elkton. Elkton’s grade-level results were uneven: its grade-6 math score was 8%, 34 points below the state, while its grade-3 math score was 59%, 8 points above the state.
Results shifted in opposite directions by subject: the schools’ average ELA score rose 9 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while their average math score fell 8 points. Newdale’s ELA result rose 13 points, compared with a 5-point increase at Elkton; both schools’ math results fell about 8 points. Elkton’s grade-5 science score also rebounded 18 points to 41%, essentially matching the state. SchoolDigger lists Elkton at 140th of 203 schools, in the 31st percentile with 2 stars, and Newdale at 171st of 300, in the 43rd percentile with 2 stars; their rankings are from different years and are not a direct comparison. Elkton’s reported student-teacher ratio was 10, compared with 29 at Newdale (2024–2025); free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 43% at Elkton (2024–2025) and 13% at Newdale (2022–2023). Because the schools serve different grade spans, the income figures are from different years, and Newdale’s grade-5 science result is suppressed, these comparisons have limits.
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