Schools in Garden · Garden City Unified School District 457
Garden’s public schools score below 84% of Kansas districts
The public schools Garden’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 84% of Kansas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
Reading proficiency
23%
▼ 13 pts vs KS 36%
2020–21
Math proficiency
17%
▼ 11 pts vs KS 28%
2020–21
Graduate on time
86%
▼ 2 pts vs KS 88%
class of 2020
Spent per student
$13.3K
▼ 11% vs KS $15.0K
FY2024
Students per teacher
14.6
KS 13.6
Schools
19
6,752 students
The School Grade
How Garden compares
D Test scoresC Graduation
Kansas school districts we grade (283)Better than 16%
Lower resultsHigher results
Kansas towns with similar household incomes (855)Better than 12%
High confidence. Built on 3,574 tested students and a graduating class of 542; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change it.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Kansas’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. 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. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
- 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 Garden.
10 schools teach K in Garden’s district. Which one depends on your address: Jennie Wilson Elem, Florence Wilson Elem, Victor Ornelas Elem and Alta Brown Elem and more.
10 schools teach 1st grade in Garden’s district. Which one depends on your address: Jennie Wilson Elem, Florence Wilson Elem, Victor Ornelas Elem and Alta Brown Elem and more.
10 schools teach 2nd grade in Garden’s district. Which one depends on your address: Jennie Wilson Elem, Florence Wilson Elem, Victor Ornelas Elem and Alta Brown Elem and more.
10 schools teach 3rd grade in Garden’s district. Which one depends on your address: Jennie Wilson Elem, Florence Wilson Elem, Victor Ornelas Elem and Alta Brown Elem and more.
10 schools teach 4th grade in Garden’s district. Which one depends on your address: Jennie Wilson Elem, Florence Wilson Elem, Victor Ornelas Elem and Alta Brown Elem and more.
4 schools teach 5th grade in Garden’s district. Which one depends on your address: Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr, Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr, Abe Hubert Elementary School and GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall.
4 schools teach 6th grade in Garden’s district. Which one depends on your address: Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr, Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr, Abe Hubert Elementary School and GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall.
4 schools teach 7th grade in Garden’s district. Which one depends on your address: Horace J. Good Middle School, Kenneth Henderson Middle, Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr and GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall.
4 schools teach 8th grade in Garden’s district. Which one depends on your address: Horace J. Good Middle School, Kenneth Henderson Middle, Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr and GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall.
The path, start to finish
PK–1210 schoolsDepends on your address
124 high schoolsDepends on your address
122 high schoolsDepends on your address
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well below the state in reading
Reading23%
State average 35.5%
Math17%
State average 27.9%
Every school in Garden
19 schools. Grades are ours, from state tests and graduation. Stars are from neighbors.
Elementary
Jennie Wilson Elem
B+796 students49:1Rate it →
Florence Wilson Elem
B−376 students16:1Rate it →
Victor Ornelas Elem
C351 students13:1Rate it →
Alta Brown Elem
B−336 students14:1Rate it →
Abe Hubert Elementary School
C285 students12:1Rate it →
Buffalo Jones Elem
C−221 students13:1Rate it →
Edith Scheuerman Elem
B−204 students12:1Rate it →
Gertrude Walker Elem
C−186 students14:1Rate it →
Georgia Matthews Elem
C+112 students11:1Rate it →
GC Achieve at J.D. Adams Hall
D−111 students7:1Rate it →
Middle
Horace J. Good Middle School
D583 students11:1Rate it →
Kenneth Henderson Middle
C−425 students14:1Rate it →
Charles O Stones Intermediate Ctr
C377 students11:1Rate it →
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Ctr
C367 students13:1Rate it →
High
Private & other
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School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Kansas. Stars are from neighbors.