Schools in Zip Code 57744

ZIP code 57744 has three schools serving grades PK–8: Hermosa Elementary (PK–6), Red Shirt School (PK–8), and Hermosa Middle School (grades 7–8). The latest proficiency results are for 2025–2026, and chronic absenteeism varies sharply across the schools: 12% at Hermosa Elementary, 23% at Hermosa Middle, and 44% at Red Shirt, compared with 20% statewide. The key takeaway is that results are uneven by school, grade, and subject, so a school-wide score may hide important differences for a child’s grade.

Among schools with reportable all-grades scores, Hermosa Elementary leads in ELA at 56%, versus 52% at Hermosa Middle, a 4-point difference; both are above the state’s 49%. Hermosa Middle leads in math at 52%, compared with 47% at Hermosa Elementary, a 5-point difference, and both exceed the state’s 44%. Grade-level results add important detail: Hermosa Elementary’s grade 5 math score is 21 points below the state, while Hermosa Middle is above the state in both math grades and its grade 8 ELA and science scores are also above the state. Red Shirt’s 2025–2026 test scores are suppressed, so it has no current proficiency score for comparison; its schools also serve different grade spans, making all-grades comparisons unlike-grade comparisons.

Math improved substantially at both Hermosa schools from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the all-grades score rose 13 points at Hermosa Elementary and 20 points at Hermosa Middle, moving both schools from below the state to above it. The trend is not universal: Hermosa Elementary’s ELA rose 5 points, but its grade 5 science fell 11 points; Hermosa Middle’s ELA fell 2 points even as its grade 8 science rose 18 points. SchoolDigger ranked Hermosa Middle in the 68th percentile and Hermosa Elementary in the 51st percentile in 2025–2026; Red Shirt’s 2024–2025 ranking was 294th of 300, in the 2nd percentile, with 0 stars. For context, 2024–2025 student–teacher ratios were 11.6 at Hermosa Elementary, 9.0 at Hermosa Middle, and 7.5 at Red Shirt. That year, free/reduced lunch eligible was 30.9% at Hermosa Elementary and 31.3% at Hermosa Middle; Red Shirt reported 24.5% directly certified for free meals and was marked as likely serving all students free meals (Community Eligibility)—a different measure, not directly comparable to lunch eligibility.