Cook’s public schools score below 61% of Kansas districts
The public schools Cook’s kids attend trail 61% of Kansas’s districts on state tests.
How Cook compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Kansas’s state tests against the state average. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Kansas only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Cook.
Parts of Cook are served by Golden Plains Unified School District 316.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Below the state in reading
Cook vs. its neighbors
Cook’s schools rank 2nd of 4 among the towns that share its borders. School Grade, by percentile among Kansas districts.
Every school in Cook
0 schools. Grades are ours, from state tests and graduation. Stars are from neighbors.
Parents talk
What Cook families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Cook
There’s no college in Cook, but 1 is within 30 miles. The closest is Colby Community College in Colby, 25.5 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Cook. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results, graded within Kansas. Stars are from neighbors.