Summary:
Zip code 57623 has one elementary school, Dupree Elementary - 02, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 with 203 students. Its latest results show proficiency below the state in every reported subject and tested grade. In 2025–2026, all-grades proficiency was 29% in English Language Arts (ELA) and 27% in math, compared with 49% and 44% statewide. The most important finding is that the school’s overall gap with the state widened, chiefly because math results declined while state math results edged up.
There is no within-zip-code top or bottom school: Dupree is the only school listed. Compared with the state, its smallest grade-level gap was in grade 3 ELA, at 38% versus 43%, or 5 points lower; its largest was in grade 5 ELA, at 20% versus 51%, or 31 points lower. Grade 5 math was also below the state, at 20% versus 43%. However, the school exceeded Dupree School District 64-2 in both all-grades subjects in 2025–2026: by 5 points in ELA (29% versus 24%) and 11 points in math (27% versus 15%).
Results shifted differently by subject: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the school’s ELA fell by 2 points, while its gap with the state remained about 20 points; math fell by 4 points, widening the state gap from 13 to 17 points. Grade 5 science stayed nearly flat at 24%, while the state rose by about 1 point and the gap widened by 1 point. SchoolDigger ranks the school 182nd of 203 statewide, in the 10th percentile, with one star for 2025–2026; its ranking was 228th of 300 and in the 24th percentile the prior year. Contextual measures include a 10.7 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and all students receive free meals (Community Eligibility) in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was 30% at the school, versus 43% districtwide and 20% statewide in 2025–2026. With just one school listed, these figures cannot show how it compares with similar nearby schools.
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