Granite, KS schools
Granite’s public schools score close to Kansas’s averages: 34.5% of students are proficient in reading against 35.5% statewide. Kids attend Almena Elem through grade 4, then Long Island Middle School and Northern Valley High.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Granite’s School Grade: B
The public schools Granite’s kids attend outperform 56% of Kansas’s districts on state tests.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Kansas’s state tests, each against the state average. 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.
- 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.
Where Granite kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Close to the state in reading
The district serving Granite
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Granite
There’s no college within 30 miles of Granite. The closest is University of Nebraska at Kearney in Kearney, NE, 55 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Granite. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.
We don’t have any schools located in Granite yet.