Summary:
ZIP code 57438 includes seven schools—four elementary, one middle and two high schools—serving Faulkton and colony communities. The latest achievement results are for 2025–2026. Across the five schools with reported all-grades ELA and math results, the unweighted averages were about 56% in ELA and 53% in math, above state figures of about 49% and 44%. The clearest takeaway is that those averages hide wide differences: school results span 54 percentage points in ELA and 59 points in math.
Faulkton Elementary - 02 leads the reported all-grades results, with 80% proficient in ELA and 85% in math; Blumengard Colony Elementary - 06 is lowest, at 26% in both subjects. Among the other colony schools, Thunderbird Colony Elementary - 10 reported 68% ELA and 53% math, while Brentwood Colony Elementary - 05 reported 42% and 50%. Faulkton High School - 01 also stands out: its 11th-grade ACT proficiency was above the state by 15 points in ELA, 19 in math and 13 in science; its graduation rate was 100%, compared with 88% statewide.
Recent elementary and middle results show different patterns: the five-school ELA average was virtually unchanged from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while math fell from 56% to 53%. Individual math results moved in opposite directions: Thunderbird fell 20 points, while Brentwood rose 14. SchoolDigger ranked Faulkton Elementary 5th of 203 in 2025–2026 and Faulkton High 12th of 130, up from 112th of 141 in 2023–2024. Student-teacher ratios also varied among the small colony schools: 16.5 at Thunderbird, 10.6 at Blumengard and 9.8 at Brentwood. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures were from 2024–2025 for Faulkton Elementary (27%), Faulkton Middle School - 08 (28%) and Faulkton High (14%), but from 2022–2023 for the colony schools (9% at Blumengard, 10% at Thunderbird and 15% at Brentwood). Because grade spans differ and colony-school enrollments are small, all-grades comparisons are useful context rather than direct rankings.
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