Schools · McAdoo

McAdoo, KS schools

McAdoo’s public schools score below Kansas’s averages: 33% of students are proficient in reading against 35.5% statewide, and 95% of high schoolers graduate on time against 88%. Kids attend Medicine Lodge Grade School or Skyline Elem through grade 8, then Medicine Lodge Jr/Sr High School or Skyline Elem and Medicine Lodge Jr/Sr High School or Skyline High.

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

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McAdoo’s School Grade: B-

The public schools McAdoo’s kids attend trail 53% of Kansas’s districts on state tests.

B-Test scores
Kansas school districts we grade (283)Better than 47%
Lower resultsHigher results
Towns in Barber County (16)Better than 56%
Good confidence. Built on 424 tested students; 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. 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.
School path

Where McAdoo kids go to school

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

Test scores · 2020–21

Below the state in reading

Reading (Skyline Schools Unified School District 438)32%
State average 35.5%
Reading (grades PK–12, Barber County North Unified School District 254)33%
State average 35.5%
Math (Skyline Schools Unified School District 438)32%
State average 27.9%
Math (grades PK–12, Barber County North Unified School District 254)28%
State average 27.9%
Graduation · class of 2020

95% graduate on time

Graduation rate
95%
KS: 88%
Graduating class
42
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

Two districts serve McAdoo

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

Within reach

Colleges near McAdoo

There’s no college in McAdoo, but 2 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Pratt Community College in Pratt, 16.9 miles away.

Straight-line distance from the center of McAdoo. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.

We don’t have any schools located in McAdoo yet.

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