Best Public Schools in Zip Code 57456

Zip code 57456 has six small schools serving 194 students across PK–12: one school serves PK–5, four serve K–8, and one serves grades 9–12. In 2025–2026, the schools’ average reported math score was 66%, compared with 44% statewide, while their average ELA score was 44%, compared with 49% statewide. The clearest overall pattern is that reported results are much stronger relative to the state in math than in ELA.

Spring Creek Colony Elementary led both reported subjects, with 64% in ELA and 96% in math—15 and 52 points above state results, respectively. It was also 19 points ahead of the next-highest reported ELA score, at Leola Elementary, and 23 points ahead in math. At the other end, Leola Junior High had the lowest reported ELA score, 23%, or 26 points below the state. Long Lake Colony Elementary had the lowest math score, 44%, just 1 point above the state. Leola High School reported a 100% graduation rate, versus 88% statewide, and a 0% dropout rate, versus 2% statewide.

Across the same four schools with results in both years, average ELA fell 9 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and all four schools’ scores declined. Average math rose 5 points; Spring Creek improved by 10 points and Long Lake by 17, while Leola Elementary fell by 6 and Leola Junior High was unchanged. SchoolDigger rated Spring Creek 5 stars and Leola Elementary 4 stars in 2024–2025; Long Lake and Grassland Colony Elementary received 2 stars that year, while Leola Junior High received 1 star in 2025–2026. As context, both Spring Creek and Long Lake serve K–8; in 2024–2025, their reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 9% and 90%, and their student-teacher ratios were 15.2:1 and 13:1, respectively. These are school-level observations, not explanations for score differences.