Best Public Schools in Zip Code 57362

The four schools in ZIP code 57362 serve 483 students from elementary through high school, and all belong to Miller School District 29-4. In 2025–26, Miller Elementary was above the state in all-grades ELA (65% versus 49%) and math (72% versus 44%); Miller Junior High was well above in ELA (68% versus 49%), while its math was about level with the state (44% versus 44%). Miller High School had a split ACT profile: science was 62% versus 45% statewide, but math was 15% versus 34%; its graduation rate was 100% versus 88% statewide. The central takeaway is that strong results are concentrated in elementary math and junior-high ELA and science, while high-school ACT math is the clearest concern.

Miller Elementary and Miller Junior High stand out most on specific grade-level results: elementary fourth-grade ELA was 96% proficient versus 48% statewide, a 48-point advantage, and fifth-grade math was 77% versus 43%, a 34-point advantage; junior-high eighth-grade science was 70% versus 41%, a 30-point advantage. At the other end, Miller High School’s ACT math result was 19 points below the state. SchoolDigger rates the elementary school at the 93rd percentile (5 stars), the junior high at the 85th percentile (4 stars), and the high school at the 48th percentile (2 stars). Millerdale Colony Elementary has no 2025–26 test results reported because the state suppressed them.

Comparable Smarter Balanced results generally improved relative to the state from 2024–25 to 2025–26: five of six school-and-subject comparisons widened their advantage, with the average gap improving by 7 points; junior-high math was the exception, slipping by 4 points to about level with the state. SchoolDigger’s junior-high ranking rose from the 63rd to the 85th percentile over the three years shown, while the high school moved from the 43rd to 26th and then 48th percentile; the elementary school was at the 93rd percentile in 2025–26 after a dip the prior year. Reported 2024–25 student-teacher ratios were 10.8 at the elementary and high schools, 14.6 at the junior high, and 37 at Millerdale Colony. Free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 23% at the elementary, 28% at the junior high, and 11% at the high school in 2024–25; Millerdale Colony reported 10% in 2022–23, a different year.