Summary:
ZIP code 57638 has one middle school, Lemmon Junior High - 06, serving grades 6–8, with 53 students and a 10.9:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025. With only one school, families cannot compare local schools directly. The most important finding is that results declined year over year, especially eighth-grade science, which fell 36 points from 59% in 2024–2025 to 23% in 2025–2026.
There is no meaningful top or bottom school in this one-school group, but performance varies substantially by subject and grade. In 2025–2026, all-grades ELA was 51%, 2 points above the state’s 49%, while all-grades math was 32%, 12 points below the state’s 44%. Seventh grade was a bright spot: ELA was 71%, 18 points above the state, and math was 57%, 13 points above. In contrast, sixth-grade math was 22%, 20 points below the state, and eighth-grade science was 23%, 18 points below.
The school’s results and SchoolDigger standing weakened over time, though seventh grade is a notable exception in the latest results. All-grades ELA declined 10 points, from 60% to 51%, and math fell 9 points, from 42% to 32%; meanwhile, the state’s math result edged up. SchoolDigger ranked the school 103 of 151 schools, in the 32nd percentile with 2 stars, in 2025–2026, compared with 74 of 246, in the 70th percentile with 4 stars, in 2024–2025; the number of schools ranked differed between years. Chronic absenteeism was 10% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 12% and the state’s 20%. The school reported 36% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, a contextual measure that does not explain achievement results.
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