Summary:
Zip code 82240 has two elementary schools in Goshen County School District #1: Lincoln Elementary serves kindergarten through grade 2, and Trail Elementary serves grades 3–5. The most important finding is that Trail’s 2025–26 proficiency averages were below state averages in both ELA and math: 48.9% versus 56.5% in ELA, and 53.4% versus 61.6% in math.
Within Trail’s reported grades, grade 4 was the strongest and grade 5 the weakest. Fourth graders were nearly at the state rate in ELA (52.4% versus 52.6%) and close in math (61.0% versus 62.6%). Fifth-grade results were farther behind: ELA was 45.5%, 15.8 percentage points below the state and 12.6 points below the district; math was 46.8%, 14.2 points below the state and 14.5 points below the district. Because Lincoln serves K–2 and has no supplied test scores, the data cannot establish a direct achievement comparison between the schools.
Trail’s results improved in some areas, but not uniformly. Its average ELA proficiency rose 8.2 percentage points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, narrowing the gap with the state from 13.4 to 7.6 points; grade 4 science also rose 4.5 points, to 48.8%. Math’s average state gap widened from 6.6 to 8.2 points, and grade 3 math fell 1.2 points even as the statewide result increased. SchoolDigger ranked Trail 114th of 148 schools in 2025–26 (23rd percentile, 1 star), a modest improvement from 122nd (18th percentile, 1 star) the year before, but still below its 2023–24 ranking of 89th (39th percentile, 2 stars). Enrollment is almost identical—239 at Trail and 238 at Lincoln—and free/reduced-lunch eligibility is similar at 47.3% and 47.5%; reported student-teacher ratios are 12.1 and 9.6, respectively. These figures describe context, not a reason for achievement results.
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