Schools · Kansas
Kansas, KS schools
Kansas’s public schools score well below Kansas’s averages: 15% of students are proficient in reading against 35.5% statewide, and 69% of high schoolers graduate on time against 88%. Kids attend one of 30 schools through grade 12, then one of 30 high schools, one of 9 high schools and one of 8 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
D−
Kansas’s School Grade: D-
The public schools Kansas’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 99% of Kansas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
D-Test scoresD-Graduation
Kansas school districts we grade (283)Better than 1%
Lower resultsHigher results
Kansas towns with similar household incomes (829)Better than 1%
High confidence. Built on 10,857 tested students and a graduating class of 1,668; 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 Kansas kids go to school
Grades PK–12
30 schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Kansas City Unified School District 500Grades 12
30 high schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Kansas City Unified School District 500Grades 12
9 high schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Kansas City Unified School District 500Grades 12
8 high schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Kansas City Unified School District 500Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Test scores · 2020–21
Well below the state in reading
Reading (grades PK–12, Kansas City Unified School District 500)15%
State average 35.5%
Reading (Piper-Kansas City Unified School District 203)44%
State average 35.5%
Math (grades PK–12, Kansas City Unified School District 500)8%
State average 27.9%
Math (Piper-Kansas City Unified School District 203)37%
State average 27.9%
Graduation · class of 2020
69% graduate on time
Graduation rate
69%
KS: 88%
Graduating class
1,668
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Districts
Two districts serve Kansas
Kansas City Unified School District 500Grades PK–12 · 43 schools · 21,538 students
$20,150 per studentKS $14,966D-Piper-Kansas City Unified School District 203Grades PK–12 · 4 schools · 2,835 students
$13,535 per studentKS $14,966A-Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 62 schools in Kansas
Showing 1–30 of 62 schools
Silver City ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 1,495 students
DPublicPiper Prairie ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–2 · 644 students
PublicM E Pearson ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 606 students
DPublicPiper Creek ElementaryElementary · Grades 3–5 · 598 students
APublicTurner ElemElementary · Grades PK–6 · 560 students
C+PublicChelsea ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 557 students
D-PublicHazel Grove ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 537 students
DPublicWest Park Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 534 students
CPublicOak Grove ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 532 students
B-PublicWelborn ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 504 students
DPublicWhittier ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 502 students
DPublicMidland TrailElementary · Grades PK–5 · 495 students
C-PublicFrances Willard ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 434 students
C-PublicLowell Brune Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 432 students
C-PublicJohn F Kennedy ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 419 students
DPublicDelaware Ridge ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 378 students
B-PublicBertram Caruthers ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 364 students
CPublicFrank Rushton ElemElementary · Grades PK–5 · 359 students
CPublicQuindaro ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 325 students
D-PublicClaude A Huyck ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 304 students
DPublicStony Point NorthElementary · Grades K–5 · 300 students
DPublicGrant ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 289 students
D-PublicJohn Fiske ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 287 students
D-PublicDouglass ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 285 students
D-PublicBanneker ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 268 students
D-PublicNew Stanley ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 251 students
DPublicStony Point SouthElementary · Grades K–5 · 247 students
CPublicThomas A Edison ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 244 students
CPublicMcKinley Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades K–5 · 243 students
D-PublicEugene Ware ElemElementary · Grades K–5 · 242 students
DPublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.