Schools · Fairway

Fairway, KS schools

Fairway’s public schools score well above Kansas’s averages: 46% of students are proficient in reading against 35.5% statewide, and 90% of high schoolers graduate on time against 88%. Kids attend one of 34 schools through grade 6, then one of 5 middle schools and one of 5 high schools.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

A-School Grade #72Highest graduation rate in KS (of 125)

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Fairway’s School Grade: A-

The public schools Fairway’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 80% of Kansas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.

ATest scoresB-Graduation

Kansas school districts we grade (283)Better than 80%

Lower resultsHigher results

Kansas towns with similar household incomes (115)Better than 71%

High confidence. Built on 12,343 tested students and a graduating class of 2,010; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Kansas’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Kansas only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Kansas with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why 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.

School path

Where Fairway kids go to school

Grades PK–6

34 schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified School District

Grades 7–8

5 middle schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified School District

Grades 9–12

5 high schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified School District

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Well above the state in reading

Reading (grades PK–12, Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified)46%

State average 35.5%

Math (grades PK–12, Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified)38%

State average 27.9%

Graduation · class of 2020

90% graduate on time

Graduation rate

90%

KS: 88%

Graduating class

2,010

students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #72 of 125 KS towns →

Districts

The district serving Fairway

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Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 45 schools · 26,330 students

$13,332 per studentKS $14,966A-

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

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