Schools · Reno

Reno, KS schools

Reno’s public schools score well above Kansas’s averages: 44% of students are proficient in reading against 35.5% statewide, and 83% of high schoolers graduate on time against 88%. Kids attend one of 12 elementary schools through grade 5, then one of 5 middle schools and Lawrence Free State High or Lawrence High or Tonganoxie High.

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

B-School Grade #101Best schools in KS (of 123)#79Highest graduation rate in KS (of 125)

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Reno’s School Grade: B-

The public schools Reno’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 52% of Kansas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

B+Test scoresDGraduation

Kansas school districts we grade (283)Better than 48%

Lower resultsHigher results

Kansas towns with similar household incomes (825)Better than 44%

Towns in Leavenworth County (10)Better than 10%

High confidence. Built on 5,417 tested students and a graduating class of 1,016; 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 Reno kids go to school

Grades PK–5

12 elementary schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Tonganoxie Unified School District 464

Grades 6–8

5 middle schoolsDepends on your address · see the list Lawrence Unified School District 497

Grades 9–12

BLawrence Free State High or B-Lawrence High or C-Tonganoxie High Depends on your address Lawrence Unified School District 497

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 (grades PK–5, Tonganoxie Unified School District 464)34%

State average 35.5%

Reading (grades 6–12, Lawrence Unified School District 497)44%

State average 35.5%

Math (grades PK–5, Tonganoxie Unified School District 464)25%

State average 27.9%

Math (grades 6–12, Lawrence Unified School District 497)31%

State average 27.9%

Graduation · class of 2020

83% graduate on time

Graduation rate

83%

KS: 88%

Graduating class

1,016

students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #79 of 125 KS towns →

Districts

Two districts serve Reno

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Tonganoxie Unified School District 464Grades PK–12 · 3 schools · 1,972 students

$12,125 per studentKS $14,966C+🏫

Lawrence Unified School District 497Grades PK–12 · 18 schools · 10,380 students

$12,393 per studentKS $14,966B-

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

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