Summary:
ZIP code 57029 has five schools serving elementary through high school: three elementary schools, one junior high and one high school, with 435 students in all. All are part of Freeman School District 33-1. Across the four schools with all-grades Smarter Balanced results, average proficiency was 55% in ELA and 47% in math, compared with state rates of 49% and 44%. The most important takeaway is that the area’s averages are above state results, but performance varies substantially by school and subject.
Freeman Junior High is the clearest math standout: 58% proficient, 14 points above the state and ahead of the next-highest school’s 48%; its seventh-grade math result was 65%, 21 points above state. Wolf Creek Colony Elementary leads all-grades ELA at 64%, 8 points above the next-highest school and 15 points above state, though its math result is below state. Freeman Elementary is at the bottom of the all-grades comparison, with 48% in ELA and 41% in math, about 1 and 3 points below state. Yet its sixth-grade results are stronger: 12 points above state in ELA and 10 points above in math.
From 2024–25 to 2025–26, the four-school average fell 2 points in ELA and rose 1 point in math; the group’s advantage over state narrowed slightly in ELA and widened from 2 to 3 points in math. Wolf Creek was an exception, improving 4 points in ELA and 6 in math. Freeman High School is assessed separately: its 11th-grade ACT results exceeded state rates by 22 points in ELA, 6 in math and 10 in science. SchoolDigger ranks Freeman High 21 of 130, Freeman Junior High 52 of 151 and Freeman Elementary 126 of 203; the ranking pools differ by school type. For context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible measures were 33% at Freeman Elementary, 31% at Freeman High and 39% at Freeman Junior High; student-teacher ratios ranged from 9.3 at Freeman High to 21.7 at Tschetter Colony Elementary. The high school’s 11th-grade ACT results are a separate measure from the other schools’ Smarter Balanced results.
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