Summary:
ZIP code 57501 has six schools: four elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. Five have test results listed for 2025–26; the Pierre Indian Learning Center has none. Among the three K–5 schools, the leader changes by subject: Buchanan Elementary leads in English language arts (ELA) and fifth-grade science, while Kennedy Elementary leads in math. The most important takeaway is that no single elementary school leads across all subjects, so results depend on what a family prioritizes.
Buchanan had the strongest elementary ELA result at 61%, compared with 54% at Jefferson Elementary and 49% at Kennedy—an 11-point spread. Kennedy led math at 62%, 16 points above Jefferson at 47%. In fifth-grade science, Buchanan scored 72%, versus 54% at Jefferson. Georgia Morse Middle School was above the state in all three reported subjects, by 6 to 10 points. T F Riggs High School also exceeded state results in its three reported measures, by 2 to 6 points.
Elementary trends were mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, the schools’ average advantage over the state narrowed by about 1 point in ELA, was essentially steady in math, and grew by 4 points in fifth-grade science. SchoolDigger ranked Buchanan at the 81st percentile and Georgia Morse at the 78th; Jefferson was at the 56th percentile among schools with ranking data. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 37% at Buchanan, 41% at Kennedy and 36% at Jefferson; these are context, not a pattern that predicts results. Jefferson also had the lowest student–teacher ratio of the three elementary schools, 13.4, but the lowest all-grades math result. Attendance offers another consideration: chronic absenteeism was 23% at Georgia Morse, compared with 6% to 12% at the elementary schools.
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